Apia, Samoa, was a key stop on the JSES Pacific Rim Tour. Not only strategically placed in the Pacific Ocean, adding Samoa to the Pacific Rim Tour had a personal reason for JSES Founder, Luca Poutoa Pistor. His Samoan grandmother's parents were born in Samoa. He traveled with his great-grandmother, Lemao Lalomalava, to Savaii, and Upolu where she introduced him to village high chiefs on Upolu and Savaii. Grandma Lemao went to school in the school JSES visited, and her grandfather built the school in 1885. 

Luca was invited to pitch SocEnt ideas to Women in Business Development to use their natural resources for social good.

Problem-solving workshop developed for JSES Xi'an were modified for the much-younger audience and proved useful to find solutions to local problems.

Site-visits are a cornerstone of JSES and on Savai'i, the home island of his great-grandmother, it has a personal context to learn to strip palm fronds for basket materials.

Connecting with Sausau and her team of youth entrepreneurs over books and pencils and popsicles. Sausau is a true leader.