From Asia Pacific Report:
The chair for Ōtara-Papatoetoe local board in Auckland, Fa’anānā Efeso Collins is also a former broadcaster and recently returned from Samoa.
He “feels” for Pacific youth who are unsure about the existence of their homeland in the future.
“There is a lot of fear about whether or not they will be able to have their own children, their own families and grow up safety in Samoa over the next few decades,” he told Asia Pacific Report.
“We know that in countries like Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu, there’s been more international travel – so they’ve migrated more in the last 10 years than any other period in their history. I think Samoan young people are starting to think about the same thing.”
This is ironic for Pacific Islanders living in New Zealand, with hopes of many eventually to return back home.
But Fa’anānā says that with the increasing impact of climate change there may not be a home to go back to.
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