Brianna Fruean | Pre-pageant Speech Miss Samoa 2024

"What is the cost of Silence? Because if it's the cost of our children, then Samoa we can no longer pay it"

Brianna Fruean on the safety of our most vulnerable, in words never before spoken in the pageant space. Bringing the entire room to tears including the judges, Brianna puts forward one of the most powerful pleas to our communities that has echoed online beyond the pageant interview. The silencing of abuse of women and children in Samoa, and why this needs to be at the heart of our aganu’u is brought centre stage