Tama Samoa

Tama Samoa, is a story based on Sione, Lima, Tavita and Filipo who are high school friends, uso or brothers. They are part of a special letter-writing project that helps to start a brave new conversation, an open and honest talanoa with themselves starting with the words, Dear Uso - Here they share the cultural challenges they face, and without realising it, their need to belong, to be accepted and the impact this has on their wellbeing overall.

The book also includes student study questions #LiteracyIntegration #RichLiteracyResource #VersatileText and the amazing Tama Samoa Project. A space created for fourteen Samoan male students and educators to share their own boys-to-men stories, lessons and journeys to help todays tama Samoa, our tama Pasifika, to be better understood and supported in succeeding as themselves.