Three ASG departments faced legislators during last week’s budget hearings
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Joint Budget Hearings continued last week with Senators and Faipule conducting joint hearings for the Departments of Agriculture (DOA), Public Works (DPW) and P


![Inmates from Tanumalala, one of Samoa’s three prisons, are collecting several hundreds of tala during the Teuila Festival in Apia, Samoa — a successful result of a rehabilitation program at the prison. The money made from the sales are split 60% to support the program and the prison communities, while 40% goes to the inmate as earned income when they are released from prison. [photo: AT] Inmates from Tanumalal with their artwork](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/5031.jpg?itok=VpwrltVK)

![The American Samoa Maui Humanitarian Relief Drive campaign kicked off on Labor Day, Sept. 4, and will run through Sept. 9, 2023. There are 13 drop-off sites, with headquarters for the drive located at the Afioga Tufele Li’amatua Sr. Tufele Cultural Center at the Su’igaula o le Atuvasa Park in Utulei, where the official call for donations was held on Monday. [ASG photo] American Samoa Maui Humanitarian Relief Drive campaign](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/maui_fund_raising_kick_off.jpg?itok=rusqqacH)




![Kahu Hailama Farden, pre-game, recited a Pule (prayer) with support from University of Hawaii Athletics Director Craig Angelos and wife Kristin, Reverend Eric Matsumoto, Monsignor Gary Secor, Reverend Paul Nahoa Lucas, Hawai‘i Governor Josh Green and wife Jaime, UH President David Lassner, and UH Associate Athletics Director Lois Manin.[photo by Barry Markowitz] PRAYER FOR MAUI](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/maui_prayer.jpg?itok=3S39Ns3x)
