 At that time there had been no formal pacific education plan and Lemisio's efforts complemented those being done by other Pasifika leaders including the Māori community (with the establishment of Kura Kaupapa Māori) and Samoan community (with the creation of the Samoan language nest, Ā'oga 'Āmata).Lemisio encouraged other mothers to engage with the language nest, leading to an increase in the number of Tokelauan women qualifying as Early Childhood Education teachers.Since the creation of the Petone Tokelauan language nests, additional language nests have been created in Auckland, Rotorua, Taupo, Porirua, Naenae, Taita, Stokes Valley, Upper Hutt, and Dunedin.