{"id":153900,"date":"2022-01-04T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=153900"},"modified":"2022-01-04T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:22:08","slug":"samoan-student-club-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/04\/samoan-student-club-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Samoan student club raise COVID awareness among Pacific Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_52951\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MSUAN7Ysbqs?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"PSA by University of Hawaii at M\u0101noa Samoan Students\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Fealofani O Samoa Student Club is raising awareness within the Pacific Islander (<abbr>PI<\/abbr>) community with a new public service announcement (<abbr>PSA<\/abbr>) to encourage COVID-19 testing and vaccinations. The video includes student testimonials about its importance with an infographic on different ways to say &ldquo;protecting life&rdquo; in 10 Pacific Islander languages.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>PSA<\/abbr> is a collaboration with <span aria-label=\"PEA\">PE&#699;A<\/span> Inc, a recently established non-profit organization to increase college representation of Pacific Islanders in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a>. It is part of the Puipuia le Ola (Samoan for &ldquo;protecting life&rdquo;) project, which aims to increase the reach and uptake of COVID-19 testing and vaccinations among Pacific Islanders in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and on Guam.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The students are our young advocates in the Pacific Islander community who understand the significance of tautua (service),&rdquo; said project co-investigator and club advisor <strong>Tina Tauasosi-Posiulai<\/strong> with the Office of Vice Provost for Student Success. &ldquo;Samoan students are natural actors and were adamant to do the <abbr>PSA<\/abbr> as their contribution to our efforts to protect the community from being disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Department of Health in May 2021, Pacific Islanders made up 4&#37; of the state\u2019s population but since the onset of the pandemic, they have accounted for 20&#37; of cases and deaths and 30&#37; of hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>The students encourage community members to &ldquo;spread awareness, not COVID&rdquo; and to &ldquo;protect yourselves so you can protect each other.&rdquo; The <abbr>PSA<\/abbr> will air on <span aria-label=\"Olelo\">&#699;&#332;lelo<\/span> <abbr title=\"television\">TV<\/abbr>and social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the Puipuia le Ola project, email <a href=\"mailto:puipuia@hawaii.edu\">puipuia@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153902\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/samoan-student-club.jpg\" alt=\"group of students throwing shakas\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/samoan-student-club.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/samoan-student-club-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/samoan-student-club-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fealofani O Samoa Student Club at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public service announcement is part of the Puipuia le Ola project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,1416,31,1111,9,56],"class_list":["post-153900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-student-service","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153917,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153900\/revisions\/153917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}