Unemployment

Traditional Samoan mats used to empower unemployed women

Petronilla Molio'o Mataeliga, who's from the village of Faleapuna, is Samoa's 2018 winner of the Queen's Young Leaders award.

She took over from her grandmother to lead the Fala Masi Revival Project.

National statistics show nine per cent of women in Samoa are out of work and Ms Mataeliga says learning new skills such as handicraft can give them more financial independence.