National Guard Youth Challenge Academy
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Department of Defense has “restored” students from American Samoa to the National Guard Youth Challenge Academy (NGYCA) in Hawai’i.
This was confirmed in a statement released by Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata yesterday.
“I received the call [yesterday] morning...

![Congresswoman Aumua Amata with some of American Samoa's youth who are now expecting to return to Hawaii and their studies at the Hawaii Youth Challenge program. (Read story in today’s issue.) [photo supplied] Amata with Youth Challenge students](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/nfyca.jpg?itok=gtuxpqpL)