New life for Italy’s ghost towns | DW Documentary

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New life for Italy’s ghost towns | DW Documentary


In 1983, Rossella Aquilanti moved to the abandoned village of Pentedattilo, in southern Italy. Today she is 63 years old and needs help with her farm. She met Maka Tounkara from Mali in a refugee shelter. The young farmer agreed to join her.

Calabria suffers from high unemployment. Many young people have had to leave the region. Rossella…

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22 Comments

  1. The key to rebuilding "ghost towns" was exemplified in this video: rebuilding community around friends and family (adopted or biological). The future of posterity to this modern dilemma (anomie) lies in the past.

  2. What a STUNNING woman Rosella is. Just stunning. We need more people like this on this earth. What courage and strength to go against the grain. These are the role models kids need.

  3. What an incredible documentary and story. Excellently done! You can see they have lots of love for each other and I wish them both the very best! May rain come for their sustenance ❤️🙏✌️

  4. I’m so glad the documentary isn’t shaking him for being a refuge. Clearly he’s a respectable and hard working young man that was escaping violence and poverty.