close up funding
Washington, D.C. — “We enjoy every time we get to host our Close Up students in our congressional office,” Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata said, welcoming notice of yearly support benefiting American Samoa’s students in the Close Up program from the Interior Department’s Office of Insular Affairs (...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs’ (OIA) Technical Assistance Program (TAP) is proving funding through the Close Up Foundation and the Micronesia Conservation Trust for students from the U.S. territories and freely associated states.
“This funding will...

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![Congresswoman Amata and a group of Close Up students from a prior year, at lunch in the congressional office building during the students’ visit to Washington D.C. [courtesy photo] Congresswoman Amata and a group of Close Up students](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/amata_with_the_close-up_students.jpg?itok=bJkMK1AZ)