The changing face of Italy
The little village of Riace in Italy’s poor southern region of Calabria has seen many of its former residents leave in search of better opportunities elsewhere.
But the mayor Domenico Lucano has found a way to breathe new life into what was a dying village - he has introduced a scheme to encourage immigrants to come and settle there.
This general view shows the village of Riace, in the southern Italian region of Calabria.
A resident named Antonio (left) sits in his barber’s shop in the village.
Unme, a migrant from Pakistan who arrived in Riace about 11 months ago, works in her ceramics shop in the village.
Two women sit and chat in Riace.
Daniel, 32, collects rubbish in the village using a donkey-cart.
Daniel, a migrant from Ghana, works as a builder in the village.
Telahun, a migrant from Eritrea, talks on the phone as he stands on the terrace of his home in Riace.
Eritrean migrants sit in their living room.
Azeb (right) and Haregu, both from Eritrea, prepare food in their home.
Daniel, a migrant from Ghana, and his Nigerian girlfriend Angela wait for the bus in Riace.
A woman and her child walk down the street in the Italian village.
Twenty-year-old Amina, a migrant from Somalia, studies Italian at school in Riace.
Children play after school in the village.
