The president of the Samoa Victim Support Group (S.V.G.S.), Siliniu Lina Chang hopes that in the next five years, the country will not need to have a Campus of Hope.

The Campus of Hope has been providing shelter to children who are survivors of physical and sexual abuse. As there is no government run protection service for children, the organisation has been facilitating this.

In an interview with the Samoa Observer, Siliniu was queried about what she wishes to improve at the campus but mostly what and how she sees the campus which caters to the children victims of violence in the next five years.

She stressed that despite all the developments she had made over the years in providing the best for the children victims she shelters, it is also her wish that the campus will be no more.

"I hope there will be no more campus. That's my wish, the more we work the more we feel our country is feeling because we don't want the children ending up there but there's no other place to keep them safe and to make them feel at home," she said.

"For many of the children, because of what is happening in their own homes, they're treating the campus as their home and if their relatives come to visit them they hide.

"That's the wish, that by the next five years, these violence and assault cases involving children will no longer be seen and heard at least through the work that we live to do in our country.

It has been 18 years since the SVSG was established according to Siliniu and the number of victims that walked through their doors knocking for help is overwhelming which is something the group and Siliniu intend to eradicate from Samoa.

Meanwhile, there are currently 85 children victims being sheltered at the Campus of Hope accompanied by her growing staff of more than 10.

Around the premises are a baby house where all the babies are cared for, shelters for victims and live-in staff, a hall, playground, chapel, school, and kitchen.