Remembering the heroes of Mametz
A 40ft shipping container full of donations will be sent to refugees in camps in Lebanon.
The container, which will include items such as food, nappies, children’s clothes and sleeping bags donated by residents from across Wales, will travel from Cwm-y-Glo in Llanberis on July 23 to Lebanon.
Volunteers from North West Wales group Pobl i Bobl have helped fill the container, which will be distributed to up to 1.8 million refugees who have escaped the war in Syria.
Catrin Wager, Pobl i Bobl chair and the main organiser of the campaign, said: “More than 400,000 of these refugees are children; children that Save the Children warns us are in danger of being a lost generation.
“Only about 30% of these children receive an education.
“Large numbers have to work to help support their families in an extremely difficult situation.”
She added: “We believe that every child deserves a chance to be a child; to play, to laugh, and to get an education and a future ahead of them.
“But Syrian children in Lebanon have already had to flee horrors that cannot be imagined and it is not always possible to realise this simple dream – but hopefully sending this container can help in some small way.”
The container will be received by the Lebanese government, who will distribute the goods between the 12 official refugee camps there.
Although Lebanon is a small country with a population of around 4.5 million, it has between 1.1 and 1.8 million refugees who have escaped the war in Syria.
This means that around one in four of the population is a refugee - the highest inclusion of Syrian refugees in any country in the world.
Pobl i Bobl are now asking members of the public to help fill the container - but the group say it is vital they receive the donations by July 10 (Sunday).
The full list of goods can be found at www. poblipobl.org.uk and the group will accept donations at Dr Zigs, Vaynol Estate, Parc Menai, daily from 10am-4pm. A COMPANY is ‘re-building’ the castles of North Wales by creating CGI images and films of how they would have looked 800 years ago.
Vivid Virtual Reality is using historical information and drone footage to bring the castles of Edward 1 back to their former glory.
The company is run by 3D artist Toby Niesser, 30, of Buckley, who wants to give an insight into how the mighty fortresses in Gwynedd, Conwy and Anglesey would have looked in the 13th century.
They have started with work on Criccieth castle, originally built by Llywelyn the Great in the early 13th Century. Edward I’s forces took the castle some 50 years later.
Toby said: “We want to show people how these castles would have looked in their heyday.
“At Criccieth, Oli Puyal provided some aerial reference photos with a drone going up around the castle.
“I also researched historical data and drawings.
“This helped me to create the CGI images. People will be surprised at the size of the original castle.
“I think it will be very interesting to visitorssitors and really bring the castle to life.”
After finishing the Criccieth project he wants to move on to Caernarfon, Conwy and Beauumaris castles.