Samoa 2019 News and Updates

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How you can help with Greening of the Games

Going green is part of the Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games - but it also starts in your home and with your families.

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Experience 'of a lifetime' for children

Children at a Savai'i school are enjoying an experience "of a lifetime," as they take part in the Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games in-schools programme.

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Greening of the Games an 'opportunity for change'

Greening of the Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games is a great platform for change in the Pacific Islands, says one of the directors of the project.

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Apia city clean-ups planned before Games

Events to clean up the streets, waterfront and rivers around Apia will be held from 25 May in a bid to prevent more litter entering the ocean.

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Teams urged to plant trees to offset air travel to Games

International teams arriving by plane in Samoa for the XVI Pacific Games are being encouraged to off-set their air travel emissions by planting trees.

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Pure Pacific Water Joins the Family of Sponsors in support of Greening the Games

Pure Pacific Water Joins the Family of Sponsors in support of Greening the Games

The Pacific Games Office is excited to announce that Pure Pacific Water has joined the family of Sponsors for the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games.

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Games to go Single Use Plastic Free launches new Greening campaign and slogan

Games To Go Single-Use Plastic Free Launches New Greening Campaign and Slogan

The Games Organising Committee announced today the move to go Single-use plastic free for the upcoming Samoa 2019 XVI Pacific Games.

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Greening of the Games a part of Pacific Games In schools programme

As the countdown to Samoa 2019 Pacific Games from 7-20 July continues, schools in Samoa are adopting one of the 24 participating countries.

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SPREP to co-lead with MNRE in Greening the Pacific Games

(Press Release); The Pacific Games Office is happy to announce that the Director-General for the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) will co-lead with the Ministry of Natural Resources…

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