The nature of Samoan socio-economic disadvantage within the Logan community,
largely because it stems from unfamiliarity with a new culture and lifestyle,
underscores both the need for this program in organizational learning for community
development and the program’s suitability to address the need in a way that
community members themselves can maintain. The program enables and supports
members to learn for and by themselves, through participatory action learning and
action research, how to understand and address the serious problems now troubling
their community. The program is designed to improve community members’ access to
more formal higher education and wider employment opportunities through first-hand
experience of learning how to learn, thus helping to prevent present structural
problems continuing into a cycle of permanent, disabling disadvantage.