My parents migrated from the heart of the Pacific, Samoa, to Aotearoa in the early 1980s. My late father, Faleafa, comes from the villages of the Vaiala and Vaimoso. My mother, Olita, comes from Solosolo and Leau'va'a. They came to seek more opportunities for our family. They were very hard working, like all our Pacific families who migrated here during that time. I have been blessed to have hard-working parents who struggled earlier on so we would flourish later on.