The Samoa Victim Support Group (SVSG), which has helped around 10,000 children who have been victims of abuse, now face a battle with the level of demand in the country.

According to the organisation, they need to expand and need more land and help for the most vulnerable.

Its Campus of Hope refuge housed around 70 children at any given time, many of whom were victims of physical and sexual violence and neglect.

Founder and SVSG President Siliniu Lina Chang told 1Newsv that the organisation has had many successes, but the need was growing.

"To be upfront, we do need funding and a lot of funding because if we have funding, we will be able to recruit staff and also have the resources available at all times," she said.

Supreme Court Judge Justice Vui Clarence Nelson had been part of the SVSG journey since it started 20 years ago.

"We are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff... this thing has already gone over the cliff. We need to look at preventative measures really long and hard," he said.

There was also a challenge to the Samoan Government to do more.

"The facilities are becoming overcrowded, and there's a crying and pressing need for Samoa Victim Support to be given access to land to build. We have donors who want to build, but we don't have the land and the capacity," he said.

Reverend Toleafoa Leatuao Tupa'i-Lavea, an SVSG ambassador, said more needed to be done to help the children who left the refuge as young adults.

"I challenge every church in Samoa, stop building bigger buildings, start building transition homes for the young adults moving off campus into the world."