Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa
Ambulance | ambulancía | Krankenwagen | 救急車 | скорая помощь: 996
Faataua Le Ola Lifeline: 800-5433
Abuse helpline: (685) 22640
Mapusaga o Aiga (Samoa)/Family Haven for Domestic Violence
CONTACT NAME: Salanieta Uesele
PHONE: 22 640
PO BOX: 3676 APIA STREET / Suite J, Nia Mall, TAUFUSI
EMAIL ADDRESS: moa@samoa.ws, LKW@samoa.ws
Faataua Le Ola
https://www.facebook.com/FLOsamoalife/
Lifeline: 800-5433
flosamoalifeline@samoaonline.ws
Samoa Family Health Association | IPPF
https://www.ippf.org/about-us/member-associations/samoa
Samoa Victim Support Group (SVSG)
https://www.facebook.com/samoavictimsupportgroup/
Beach Road, Apia (behind the Central Police Station)
(685) 800-7874/ 27904/ 25392
Faalapotopotoga Atinae o Komiti Tumama o Samoa (FAKTS)/ Samoa Womens Committee Development Organisation (SWCDO)
Mobile phone: 7611752/76111750
Email address swcdorg@samoa.ws, katifabryce@yahoo.com.au
Caritas Samoa
caritas.org/where-caritas-work/oceania/samoa/
Address: Tuutuuileloloto Hall, Mulivai- Apia, PO Box 532
Telephone: +685 27692
E-mail: cfo@samoa.ws / Archdiocese_caritasprojects@samoa.ws / Archdiocese_caritasadmin@samoa.ws
Facebook: Caritas Samoa https://www.facebook.com/caritassamoa/
Pasefika Mana Social Services
Lalovaea
29679
Samoa Social Welfare Fesoasoani Trust
Mulinu’u, MJCA
28944
Toomaga o Aiga
7578696 https://web.facebook.com/toomagaoaigatoa?_rdc=1&_rdr
In the Samoa Health & Safety Study (2006), 70% of women stated that ‘wife beating’ was acceptable, and 50% of men surveyed said it was ‘okay’. In the same study, 39% of respondents reported ‘seeing abuse against women in the past year’, but only 25% of those people actually reported the incidents to authorities.
Female participants in Samoa’s Demographic Health Survey (2014) communicated an alarming level of acceptance of domestic violence:
37% or four out of ten women agreed that ‘wife beating’ can be justified.
In Samoa’s National Family Safety Study (2017), 90% of children surveyed experienced some sort of violence and abuse. The National Study concluded that “there is an endemic nature of domestic violence (DV) in Samoa and a persistent culture of violence against women, children and persons with disabilities.”Violence against women and girls is a key public health concern, and the data that exist suggest it is a significant problem in Samoa. According to a Samoa Family Health and Safety study in 2006, 38 per cent of ever-partnered women experience physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner, 19 per cent experienced emotional abuse and 20 per cent experience sexual violence in their lifetime.
Sources:
Samoa Health & Safety Study (2006)
Samoa Demographic Health Survey (2014)
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