Save the Children photographs a Calabria that is limping in terms of culture and use of cultural services. A marked trend, which however according to professor and anthropologist Vito Teti “is not a fate or a condemnation” but rather “an environmental difficulty that can be countered and corrected”.
Yet Calabrian teenagers read less than all their other Italian peers.
«This is a historicized fact that unfortunately is no longer news. In Calabria there are many factors that fuel this phenomenon. I am thinking, for example, of the absence of a real city equipped with theatres, cinemas, galleries, publishing houses, which acts as a cultural driving force for the entire region. Naturally our Universities play a positive role and are also innovative, but young people arrive at the Universities when they already have their basic “training”. There is a lack of bookshops, libraries, museums, theaters and, it must be said, young people. The progressive decrease in the population is leading to the closure of many schools and the creation of multi-classes. This dynamic negatively affects the activities that the school itself carries out at the service of students.
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