Amata Highlights Several Grant Notices

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata highlighted several federal grant notifications this week that support local government services and organizations. In combination, the four grants from 2023 Appropriations total about $1.3 million for various efforts in American Samoa.

The four grants are as follows:

• U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office on Violence Against Women, $750,000 in federal support for the Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program of the American Samoa Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Inc.
• U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), for the American Samoa Department of Homeland Security, $133,844, in federal funding for their Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness project.
• U.S. DOJ, Office of Justice Programs, $20,429, a discretionary grant to American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency, led by Director Mariana Timu-Faiai, alleviating some of the student loans of attorneys in exchange for their services to American Samoa.
• U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS), for Intersections, Inc., $403,293 in federal funding for their Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program.

“Thank you to the application efforts that went into each of these grants, especially Jennifer Tofaeono for her work on the $750,000 Violence Against Women program grant, and each of the others taking part in either qualifying for these funds, or helping implement these efforts so our territory has these services,” said Congresswoman Amata.

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