A big shout out goes to my colleague Lelili'o Alice, the Centre Manager from 'Taeaofou i Puaseisei' Samoan bilingual Early childhood centre that's about a 5-7 minute drive away from our centre.
She's also a senior member of our local church so it's neat when communities are able to share resources and the blessing of an overflow to other centres as well.
Today, the Ministry of Education has announced a second pool of funding that Early childhood centres, schools and other education institutions or education researchers can apply for with a due date in April of proposal and applications to be handed in.
I'm looking at working collaboratively with 3 other neighbouring centres i.e. Cook Islands, Niuean and Samoa centres to see if they are able to access the Pacific Education Innovation funding that has a pool of about $6 million.
The reason being that it's really important that local centres are able to access that funding to support the cultural and educational needs of this funding and just won't go to the mainstream education spaces who already do get a lot of funding.
An exciting time, as our centre is now beginning to roll out plans and organizing our funding project that was accepting for our 'Measina a Samoa' project. Kicking off this month with a workshop open to our parents for learning more about the cultural treasures of Samoa. But more on this to come in future blogs. Enjoy your weekend...
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