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A Hawaiian company is eyeing the outer islands of Manu’a in American Samoa for its first tele-medicine network.

The Native Hawaiian Holdings Company has already been awarded a 4.9 million US dollar contract to train American Samoans for jobs in the tele-medicine industry and other technology related opportunities.

Three American Samoa National Emergency Grant (NEG) participants, who were paid interns at the American Samoa Power Authority and the Governor’s Office, were very pleased to be given the chance to work, even though it was only for a certain period of time...

ETA News Release: [06/27/2012]
Contact Name: Clarisse Young or Jason Kuruvilla
Phone Number: (202) 693-5051 or x6587
Release Number: 12-1293-SAN

US Labor Department awards grant supplement to fund continuation of employment and training services for tsunami cleanup workers in American Samoa

(UTULEI: Wednesday, June 27, 2012) ‒ Governor Togiola Tulafono today announced the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a $500,000 National Emergency Grant supplement to continue re-employment and training services for workers who were hired on a temporary basis to help with cleanup and recovery efforts in the wake of the tsunami that struck American Samoa in September 2009.

Press Release(UTULEI: Monday, February 20, 2012) - In preparation for the departure of the American Samoa National Emergency Grant (ASNEG) Program participants to work in Guam this Thursday, February 23rd, Governor Togiola Tulafono expressed his gratitude to Guam Governor Eddie Calvo, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Territory’s Department of Human Resources for making the project available to American Samoa.

Governors Calvo and Tulafono build regional workforce training partnership

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February 24, 2012

(UTULEI: Wednesday, March 21, 2012) –Governor Togiola Tulafono today said the final workforce development projects are underway for the U.S. Department of Labor National Emergency Grant (NEG) program under the management of the American Samoa Government (ASG) Department of Human Resources (DHR).

Governor Togiola said with the implementation of the remaining projects, the program outcomes are well within reach as the DHR NEG staff advances towards a swift ramp-up of the training and employment projects with the contact center industry and the fiber-optic cable project.

Some 120 temporary workers have been recruited so far from about 2,000 applications the Department of Human Resources (DHR) received for possible temporary employment under the $24.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor for recovery efforts...

The more than 60 worksites for the federally funded National Emergency Grant (NEG) officially closed late last month and final performance reports have been turned in, according to the Governor’s Authorized Representative (GAR) Evelyn Vaitautolu Langford.

The NEG grant of $24 million was awarded to American Samoa in October 2009 to assist with temporary employment assistance thru disaster recovery, cleanup and humanitarian restoration jobs. ...

A culinary school based in American Samoa has been awarded a half a million dollar contract to provide a culinary training school, which is a project that the government hopes will ready local workforce for the hospitality industry.