HRPP Leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi with members of the traveling party at Sydney Airport for the flight home via Fiji.
By Staff Writer
Leaders and supporters of the Human Rights Protection Party, HRPP, are making their way home in the early hours of this Wednesday morning from Australia.
The large travelling group are returning from a promotional ’meet and greet’ with the large Samoan community in Australia.
The opposition party leader, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, led the local crowd of party members for about a weeklong visit.
The trip follows a similar get together with the Samoan community in New Zealand where the group had traveled for an earlier ‘meet and greet’ visit.
While in Australia the group were treated to a series of welcoming ava ceremony by their hosts in keeping with the culture.
Entertainment followed the formalities to give everyone the time to mingle and enjoy the fun and camaraderie leading up to a feast to cap off the special occasion.
Monetary donations and more presented as gifts were made by the Samoan community as hosts to their visiting compatriots many of who were home relatives.
The group are flying into Samoa from Fiji where they were on Transit from Sydney, Australia.
