“It’s about children of immigrants coming together and telling their stories,” Abu said.
“Where you are from, matters.”
The friends, who met at school and are all aged 22, have created a docuseries for YouTube and regularly post their adventures on TikTok and Instagram.
Their main goals were to connect with their backgrounds, live how their families lived and showcase it to the world.
“Instead of going on holidays to a country where we have no cultural ties to, [we thought] let’s go to the countries where we’re from, ” said Abu.
They recruited friends Anas Omar and Henry Harte to film their travels and, self-financing their mission, they set off.
“We wanted to tell these stories in a way that was fun, entertaining, and in a way that second-generation immigrants that might be a bit detached from their homeland could relate to,” Abu added.
