If you want to stop drinking, we can help
If you are concerned about your own drinking, you are welcome to join us. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. AA is nonprofessional and not affiliated with other organizations. The members stay sober themselves through intensive work with other alcoholics. We can do together what we could not do alone, stay sober. For more information email us.
The 12 step program of recovery that we practice in AA is outlined in the book, Alcoholics Anonymous (click the link to read this book online). This book and all of the program literature can be found at the AA website.
If you are concerned about someone else's drinking, the program of AlAnon is especially for family and others affected by someone else's drinking. AlAnon is your best source of information on how you can help your loved one. AlAnon's website is here.
If you are concerned about your own drinking, you are welcome to join us. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking. AA is nonprofessional and not affiliated with other organizations. The members stay sober themselves through intensive work with other alcoholics. We can do together what we could not do alone, stay sober. For more information email us.
The 12 step program of recovery that we practice in AA is outlined in the book, Alcoholics Anonymous (click the link to read this book online). This book and all of the program literature can be found at the AA website.
If you are concerned about someone else's drinking, the program of AlAnon is especially for family and others affected by someone else's drinking. AlAnon is your best source of information on how you can help your loved one. AlAnon's website is here.
AA meetings on Tutuila:
There is a small fellowship of AA members on island. We meet weekly. We meet wherever we can; at a member's home, a beach fale etc. Please email us to make contact with our group. If you have a desire to stop drinking, you are welcome to join us, this is the only requirement for membership in AA.
We are looking for a meeting location:
In order to be more accessible to all, we are looking for a meeting room to rent, that is:
1) A wheelchair accessible meeting room with access to a restroom.
2) If the location is affiliated with a government or religious organization, the meeting room would need to ensure privacy for the length of the meeting (1 hr to 1.5 hrs once per week). Autonomy and anonymity are important principals of AA success.
3) With a defined rent amount for each week, so we can be sure to be self-supporting.
4) Located on or near the main road, so bus riders can attend.
A special request for Samoans in recovery off-island:
AA is really struggling in American Samoa. Samoans who have found recovery off-island, please come home for an extended period to pass it on here at home. If you are unable to come home to do service work that way, will you record a speaker tape of yourself that we may share or be available for phone or virtual support?
We are interested in creating a network of Samoan language speakers who can 12 step those in need on-island. We would also like to post some speakers tapes on this website in the Samoan language (speakers tapes by Samoans in recovery are also welcome in English). If you can't send audio or video, please send written testimonies if you are willing to have them published here. The purpose of this is to show people struggling with alcoholism here on-island that there is hope, and that they are not alone. Please email us!
Another way you can help AA in American Samoa and Samoa is to advocate to your local AA General Service Office for the translation of AA literature into the Samoan language. At this time only a few pamphlets are translated but not the core texts of the Big Book and 12 X 12.
Thank you for your interest in AA, and for reading this.
Information about AA in Samoa (Apia, Upolu) can be found here at AA in Samoa.
https://samoan-aa.org/
There is a small fellowship of AA members on island. We meet weekly. We meet wherever we can; at a member's home, a beach fale etc. Please email us to make contact with our group. If you have a desire to stop drinking, you are welcome to join us, this is the only requirement for membership in AA.
We are looking for a meeting location:
In order to be more accessible to all, we are looking for a meeting room to rent, that is:
1) A wheelchair accessible meeting room with access to a restroom.
2) If the location is affiliated with a government or religious organization, the meeting room would need to ensure privacy for the length of the meeting (1 hr to 1.5 hrs once per week). Autonomy and anonymity are important principals of AA success.
3) With a defined rent amount for each week, so we can be sure to be self-supporting.
4) Located on or near the main road, so bus riders can attend.
A special request for Samoans in recovery off-island:
AA is really struggling in American Samoa. Samoans who have found recovery off-island, please come home for an extended period to pass it on here at home. If you are unable to come home to do service work that way, will you record a speaker tape of yourself that we may share or be available for phone or virtual support?
We are interested in creating a network of Samoan language speakers who can 12 step those in need on-island. We would also like to post some speakers tapes on this website in the Samoan language (speakers tapes by Samoans in recovery are also welcome in English). If you can't send audio or video, please send written testimonies if you are willing to have them published here. The purpose of this is to show people struggling with alcoholism here on-island that there is hope, and that they are not alone. Please email us!
Another way you can help AA in American Samoa and Samoa is to advocate to your local AA General Service Office for the translation of AA literature into the Samoan language. At this time only a few pamphlets are translated but not the core texts of the Big Book and 12 X 12.
Thank you for your interest in AA, and for reading this.
Information about AA in Samoa (Apia, Upolu) can be found here at AA in Samoa.
https://samoan-aa.org/