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Senior Citizens at Senior Citizens Day event
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) held a Senior Citizens Day Program this past Friday where seniors were recognized for their impact on the territory. TAOA also recognized the oldest senior citizen, presented an award for community service excellence, and...
TAOA sign
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Office of Protection and Advocacy for the Disabled (OPAD) provided a summary of its many achievements in 2021 in the Governor’s State of the Territory Comprehensive Report distributed to lawmakers last month. According to the report, OPAD advocated for accessibility...
TAOA sign
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Compliant with federal funding requirements, improvements in the the meal program and funding to purchase smart phones for senior citizens, are some of the achievements by the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) in 2021 cited in the Governor’s State of the...
Crowd of senior citizens at the DYWA center
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Over 900 senior citizens were the special guests at the of Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) 8th Annual Senior Citizens Christmas Program this past Thursday, Dec. 9, hosted by Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga. And as the participants awaited the arrival of the Governor...
Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management staff wrapping presents
Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) staff working to put together and wrap Christmas gifts for the annual Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) program in the coming days.  As in past years, ASG departments and agencies are assigned to provide gifts that will be...
Evelyn Lili’o Satele
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are doing more home deliveries now than before,” Evelyn Lili’o Satele, the now fully Fono confirmed director of the Territorial Office of Administration on Aging (TAOA) said of the senior cooked food program during her Senate...
The new TAOA building in Tafuna
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The yet-to-be-dedicated new Territorial Administration on Aging compound in Tafuna will be bustling with Christmas caroling, gift presentations and other activities, next week Friday, Nov. 13th during the governor’s annual Senior Citizens Program. “It is that time of the...
Three senior citizens at bus stop
Senior citizens wait at the bus stop in Fagatogo for their “Dial a Ride” to head home after performing with the senior citizens group from TAOA during a ceremony last Friday morning at the Fagatogo Malae to officially close the American Samoa 2020 Census. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]
Food in a Styrofoam clamshell
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Given the fact that the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) “carries the responsibility of ensuring” that the territory’s most vulnerable population — senior citizens — is safe and protected, it has been or will implement measures to ensure they are safe from the...
Building site for the proposed new TAOA building.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has submitted legislation for Fono approval of $721,000 to fund the construction of a new Senior Citizen Center in Tafuna — next to the Territorial Correction Facility — on ASG land that has been cleared for the project. Funding source is fiscal...

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