{"id":35407,"date":"2019-03-15T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=35407"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:50:37","slug":"schoolboy-makes-amazing-lego-movie-about-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/15\/schoolboy-makes-amazing-lego-movie-about-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolboy makes amazing Lego movie about refugee crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35408\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/DSC_1587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5984\" height=\"3376\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35408\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/DSC_1587.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5984\" height=\"3376\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\nA SCHOOLBOY from Rumney has made an amazing film using lego to tell the story of the refugee crisis.<br \/>\nWhile most 15-year-old boys spent their half-term glued to video games, Eddie Gwilliam was busy putting together a moving and educational video with a twist.<br \/>\nThe teenager, who builds models that are displayed in Cardiff&#8217;s Lego store, said: \u201cI wanted to do something that would make people understand that refugees were all once like you and I,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe video shows a family going about their usual life when, suddenly, their house is bombed.<br \/>\nThe characters escape the flames and are seen hiking across the country. They then voyage across water in a dinghy, miring the perilous journey refugees often make.<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Lego animation  -  Every Refugee has a story to tell\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SH6ZRjOtfbk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Lego animation  -  Every Refugee has a story to tell\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SH6ZRjOtfbk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\nThe short-film finishes in a distressing scene of the family begging.<br \/>\n\u201cAll the news focuses on those in refugee camps where it is quite grimy and horrible,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThat sort of makes people think: \u2018Oh they\u2019re coming from places like that, so they are going to make our place like that.\u2019<br \/>\n\u201cI was trying to combat that.\u201d<br \/>\nA recent YouGov poll found 3 in 10 Brits felt refugees received too much help from the government.<br \/>\nThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said 1,095 people died on the central Mediterranean route, mainly from Libya to Italy, between January and July this year \u2013 amounting to one death for every 18 arrivals.<br \/>\nThe St. Teilo\u2019s School student made the video as part of his Welsh Baccalaureate project \u2013 a programme that runs alongside traditional learning and aims to develop practical and lateral thinking.<br \/>\nEddie, a Young Leader at Rumney Scouts, said he was trying to make people understand the issue in an easy way &#8211; and thought utilising his love for Lego was a useful vehicle.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been building Lego since as long as I can remember,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cI have an enormous collection and once or twice a year I will make a display and it will go in the Cardiff Lego shop.\u201d<br \/>\nEddie said he devoted two hours a day for two weeks to making the video.<br \/>\nMother Carol Gwilliam, of Wentloog Road, said: \u201cI was really, really proud of him.<br \/>\n\u201cLots of younger people think refugees just come from dreadful places, but originally they weren\u2019t dreadful and initially they were doctors, engineers or journalists.<br \/>\n\u201cThey were just normal people, who have had their lives turned upside down. That\u2019s what he was trying to get across \u2013 they\u2019re just normal people.\u201d<br \/>\nMrs Gwilliam volunteers at Greyhound Rescue Shop on Albany Road and said she encounters refugees on a daily basis.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of our customers are people that have come to this country for one reason or another,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of them are refugees who have no money. I am concerned about people\u2019s misunderstanding about it.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t want anything to do with them and think they are just here to take our jobs.<br \/>\n\u201cThey can\u2019t speak our language, they have children to clothe \u2013 we can\u2019t ever imagine being in that situation. It\u2019s ignorance really and that\u2019s the thing that concerns me most of all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A SCHOOLBOY from Rumney has made an amazing film using lego to tell the story of the refugee crisis. 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