Passion born in poverty LATAYVIA’S LESSONS IN LOVE
By the time Latayvia Tualasea Tautai started high school, she had lived in 14 different homes – including relatives’ garages and women’s refuge – while surviving on emergency food parcels.
At school, she would refuse social invitations from her classmates as she was unable to invite them back to her house. The few activities she did attend, they thought she was getting lifts there and back, but secretly she would bus.
That is, until Latayvia bought her family the first car they had ever owned with the money she earned after years of working after school and at weekends.
It’s no surprise that the former St Dominic’s College head prefect is passionate about helping others out of financial hardship.
