There will always be people who rely only on the Lord to provide for them yet they don’t put in the work. Then we have the other set of people who have no faith in the Lord yet they are hard workers.

For Alex Solovala, 26, from Tiavi, there needs to be a balance of the two. You need to work hard and have faith in the Lord.

“This is how life is,” he told the Village Voice.

“We have taro, we have bananas and we have cabbages. If we want to eat something nice then we just open a can of tinned fish and that’s it.

“A family can really make it with a plantation. We also have to serve the Lord and be good with the church commitments.

“You see, the church commitments are for the programmes of the Lord and you will receive blessings if you are honest with what you give.

“The blessings will also pour onto your children. So in order to make things work in Samoa is to just work hard and serve the Lord.