Weliyo Family Videos Now Available

We are large number of Somali Bantu in this city, San Antonio, Texas but this movie focus on the Weliyo families in the United States. This movie contains very long and heart touching greeting for people haven't met each other in about 2 decades. Other parts of the movie contains advice and encouragement for the Somali Bantu in Somalia, that they have to cooperate, communicate and have one objective.

Weliyo's World DVDI hope as people watching this movie insider or outsiders will make better understanding the United States of America. Our people in Africa are curious about in America. We need to show physically and emotionally how life is in this country. I know it's hard to believe people for people in Africa, because they already affected a disease of knowing American /people resettled to the United States have a lot of money that they can send their people, they can take out being poorness. Sure we can but it is not the way you think. Ongoing this movie we will explain more life, culture, adaption, and people feeling and greeting and also pleasing to their people in Africa.

What Is This Video About?

In Somalia by 2000 an estimated 80,000 historically enslaved Bantus, mostly farmers and shop owners, many speaking several languages and dialects of which Mai Mai is one, were killed. By 2004, more than 12,000 Somali Bantus (a tribally mixed immigrant group named in the refugee camps in Kenya by U.N.H.C.R. workers) have immigrated to the U.S. The Weliyo Family is but one group sending a message and assistance to other family members still surviving today in war torn Somalia. The tribal warloards continue to destroy what is left. This video is their description of their life and learning and freedom in the U.S.A.

This video is a letter home to our family left behind in Africa, to let them know where we live, what life is like for us here now, and to let them know we still care about them. Fillled with family greetings, you will also get to see our family's apartments, children, places where we work, and a little about what life is like for us here.