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  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A man photographs the Colosseum by a white light LED lamppost (center, foreground), while the background is lit by yellow light sodium lampposts (background, left) in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_635...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white light LED lamppost (center, foreground) and yellow light sodium lampposts (background, left) are seen here by the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_634...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates a street, while an old sodium yellow street light illuminates the other (right), in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) A white light LED lamppost and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_622...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) A white light LED lamppost and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_614...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A historical lamppost in which the sodium warm light bulb was subsituted by a LED light bulb in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_599...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_642...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed light up a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_637...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: (L-R) White light LED lampposts and a yellow light sodium lamppost are seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_625...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light (left) illuminates a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_644...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street light illuminates Piazza della Madonna di Monti, while the streets in the background are still lit by the old sodium yellow street lights, in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_639...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed light up a street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_636...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white light LED lamppost is seen here in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_615...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A sodium yellow light lamppost, which has not yet been subsistuted by a LED lamp, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_614...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Piazza Navona in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_646...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_647...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_647...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Parione neighborhood near Campo de' Fiori in the historical center of Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_646...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: Old yellow sodium street lights, that have not been yet subsituted by white LED lights, illuminate the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_645...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: An image of the Virgin in a frame attached to a wall, with above it was a bare LED street lamp with its glass panes removed, is seen here in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_639...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: White LED street lamps with their glass panes removed are seen here in the foreground, while the yellow street lights in the background hang over the street in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_629...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A white LED street lamp with its glass panes removed is seen here in the Monti neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_636...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A flat rectangular LED lamp, which subsititued the transparent dome-shaped lamps, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood by the tower of the church of Santa Maria Addolorata in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_609...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 MARCH 2017: A flat rectangular LED lamp, which subsititued the transparent dome-shaped lamps, hangs over a street in the Coppedè neighborhood in Rome, Italy, on March 20th 2017.<br />
<br />
Rome is undergoing a city-wide plan to change its public illumination from the current yellow sodium street lights CK to white LED lamps. In making the change, Rome joins a long line of cities around the world that have switched to the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly LED lighting, and it is not the first city where that change has come at the price of protest.<br />
<br />
Since July, some 100,000 led lights have already been installed, just over half the number that will be substituted in the 53 million euro changeover that is expected to save the city millions of euros in electrical bills. But when Rome’s municipal electrical utility ACEA began to substitute the lamps in Rome’s historic center, residents began to take note.
    CIPG_20170320_NYT_RomeLights__M3_609...jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Steamers containing dumplings are here on the bar at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_015.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_022.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_021.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_020.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_019.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of spring rolls is here on a table, while customers in the background have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_018.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of spring rolls is here on a table, while customers in the background have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_017.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. A dish of spring rolls is here on a table, while customers in the background have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_016.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_013.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_012.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. General manager Balke Davis (right) and manager Antonio have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_011.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY.  (L-R) Balke Davis (General Manager), Antonio (Manager), and Aneta Kyrcz (waitress), have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    Shortys_010.jpg
  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
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  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
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  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Waiter and bartender Gustavo Obregon exits the kitchen carrying steamers containing dumplings. Customers have late dinner after midnight at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
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  • 9 October, 2008. New York, NY. Liquors on display at Shorty's 32 Restaurant in Soho. Shorty's 32 has late night services some nights. <br />
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  • NAPOLI, 24 APRILE 2016: Light Yagami, protagonista del manga "The death note", cammina lungo un sentiero durante la XVIII edizione di Comicon, il salone internazionale del fumetto presso la Mostra d'Oltremare a Napoli, il 24 aprile 2016.<br />
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NAPLES, ITALY - 24 APRIL 2016: A cosplay dressed as Light Yagami, the main character of the manga "Death Note" walks along a path at the XVIII edition of Comicon, the international comics fair in Naples, Italy, on April 24th 2016.
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  • CATANIA, ITALY - 3 OCTOBER 2021: Antonino De Luca (33) light a candle during the baptism ritual of his son Samuel in the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Catania, Italy, on October 3rd 2021.<br />
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The Roman Catholic diocese of Catania ended a grace period and imposed a three-year ban on the ancient tradition of naming godparents at baptisms and christenings, arguing that the once essential figure in a child’s Catholic education had lost all spiritual significance, becoming a mere connection for material gain and family ties — and sometimes mob ties — and should be at least temporarily scrapped. Other dioceses, including in the Tuscan city of Grosseto also announced plans this month to restrict the figure, and Pope Francis has expressed interest in the idea, according to the Calabrian archbishop who first floated it to him more than five years ago.<br />
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That tainted notion of the godfather became most popularized by The Godfather, especially the iconic baptism scene when Michael Corleone renounces Satan in church as his henchmen whack all his enemies. But church officials warn that secularization more than anything led them to rub the godfather out.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 21 OCTOBER 2020: Light is seen here diffracted inside the the Apple Developer Academy in Naples, Italy, on October 21st 2020.<br />
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In the past few years Naples been fostering a growing community of tech start-ups and app creators. What has really changed the game for Naples' tech scene is Apple's recent arrival in the city. In 2015, Apple opened its Developer Acamdy in Naples, in conjunction with University of Naples Federico II, where students spend a year training to be developers, coders, app creators and start-up entrepreneurs. <br />
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And where Apple goes, others follow. In 2018, networking giant Cisco opened its own networking academy in Naples.<br />
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The hope is it will change not just Naples' reputation, but also its fortunes and so reverse a brain drain that's seen many of the city's young graduates leave to find jobs in the more prosperous north of Italy, or even abroad. Naples, and its region, Campania, is part of the Mezzogiorno (southern Italy and Sicily) which lags behind the rest of the country in terms of economic growth. Here the youth jobless rate was above 50% in 2019, among the highest unemployment rate in Europe.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Founder and President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Giovanni Savino (38) is seen here with elementary school children during after-school activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Secreatry Pietro Esposito (21) is seen here at work at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
    CIPG_20180316_CAUSETTE_NapoliBarra_M...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 10 MAY 2017: Participants are seen here at Olafur Eliasson's green light workshop in the Central Pavillon of the 57th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, on May 10th 2017.<br />
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The 57th International Art Exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. "Viva Arte Viva is an exclamation, a passionate outcry for art and the state of the artist. Viva Arte Viva is a Biennale designed with artists, by artists and for artists, about the forms they propose, the questions they ask, the practices they develop and the ways of life they choose", Christine Macel says. <br />
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Rather than broaching a single theme, Viva Arte Viva offers a route that moulds the artists’ works and a context that favours access and understanding, generating connections, resonances and thoughts. VIVA ARTE VIVA will unfold over the course of nine chapters or families of artists, beginning with two introductory realms in the Central Pavilion, followed by another seven across the Arsenale through the Giardino delle Vergini. 120 are the invited artists from 51 countries; 103 of these are participating for the first time. <br />
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The Exhibition will also include 85 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. 3 countries will be participating for the first time: Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati, Nigeria.
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  • SANT'AGATA DE' GOTI, ITALY - 13 November 2013: An Ape Piaggio (a three-wheeled light commercial vehicle) passes by the Mongillo's house, the closest family of Mayor Bill de Blasio in Italy, in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Italy, on November 13th, 2013. Sant'Agata de' Goti is the town that Bill de Blasio’s maternal grandfather, Giovanni de Blasio, left over a<br />
hundred years ago for the United States.
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Ermisino fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
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Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3985.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Ermisino fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3795.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Ermisino fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
<br />
Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3791.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2473.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2453.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2435.jpg
  • CATANIA, ITALY - 13 APRIL 2018: An employee shuts off the light used for the visual inspection of the new bifacial thin film solar panel at the visual inspection station during the testing phase at the 3Sun factory, the last European photovoltaic factory in Catania, Italy, on April 13th 2018.<br />
<br />
3SUN is the last European photovoltaic factory which intends to compete with the most important worldwide companies in this sector. 3SUN is an industrial project that was founded in 2010 as a joint venture agreement between Enel Green Power, Sharp Corporation and STMicroelectronics. Since 2015 3Sun is entirely owned by Enel Green Power, the Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation.<br />
<br />
<br />
The 3SUN solar factory will produce bifacial thin film solar panel using heterojunction technology.<br />
The new panel marks a technological leap forward from the previous solution, based on the multi-junction of thin film silicon, to the production of new, cutting-edge bifacial photovoltaic modules using the heterojunction of amorphous and crystalline silicon (known as HJT).<br />
The new module will be exclusively produced in Catania and will guarantee a high performance in terms of efficiency and productivity, as well as a low degradation rate.
    CIPG_20180413_NYT-Solar_M3_3846.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: (L-R) Members and Instructors of "Il Tappet o di Iqbal" Carlo Epifani (19), Mattia Formicola (22, top), Pietro Esposito (21, bottom), Ciro Grimaldi (22), Founder and President Giovanni Savino (38), Caterina Spezzaferri (29, top), Chiara Scognamiglio (20, bottom), Michelangelo Ravone (23), Antonio Bosso (25) and Vice-President Marco Riccio (25) pose for a portrait at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
    CIPG_20180316_CAUSETTE_NapoliBarra_M...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Abstract paintings made by children during their after-school activity are seen here at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
    CIPG_20180316_CAUSETTE_NapoliBarra_M...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Founder and President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Giovanni Savino (38) is seen here with elementary school children during after-school activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Elementary school children are seen after their after-school activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Teenagers followed by their instructors walk out of the gym after practicing parkour at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: (R-L) Circus instructor Antonio Bosso (25) hugs Carllo Borrelli (23)  at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Teenagers standing on stilts are seen here during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Buildings of the Barra neighborhood are seen here from the gym of  "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: A teenager standing on stilts looks at the Barra neighborhood from the gym during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: A teenager practices diabolo during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Vice-President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Marco Riccio (25) juggles with a teenager during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Michelangelo Ravone (23, right) teaches diabolo to a teenager at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Vice-President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Marco Riccio (25) juggles with a teenagers during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Claves and balls used during the circus activity are seen here at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Teenagers practice aerial dance and trapeze at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: A teenagers is seen here during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Aerial Dance instructor Caterina Spezzaferri (29) teaches aerial dance to teenagers at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
<br />
Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Circus and Parkour Instructor Antonio Bosso (25) juggles with a teenager during the circus activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Secreatry Pietro Esposito (21) is seen here at work at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: (R-L) Carlo Borrelli (23, Janitor), Pietro Esposito (21, Secretary) and Marco Ravone (19, circus teacher) are seen here at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: A child's painting quoting "The right to study" is seen here at the headquarters of  "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Teenagers followed by their instructors walk out of the gym after practicing parkour at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Teenagers practice parkour at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Angela Cuccaro (19), an aerial dancer, poses for a portrait at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Angela Cuccaro (19) is seen here as she performs aerial dance at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Angela Cuccaro (19) is seen here as she performs aerial dance at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Angela Cuccaro (19) is seen here as she performs aerial dance at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Angela Cuccaro (19) is seen here as she performs aerial dance at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Founder and President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Giovanni Savino (38, center) looks at a teenager who missed school and a potential school-dropout as he walks away,  here at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Founder and President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Giovanni Savino (38, center) talks to a teenager who missed school and a potential school-dropout, while  Vice-President Marco Riccio (25, left) listens to the conversation, here at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: Elementary school children watch "Inside Out", a 3D animated comedy-drama, during after-school activity at "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 16 MARCH 2018: (R-L) Vice-President of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" Marco Riccio (25) and  Save The Children project coordinator Luigi Malcangi walk together toward the offices of "Il Tappeto di Iqbal" (Iqbal's carpet), a non-profit cooperative in Barra, the estern district of Naples, Italy, on March 16th 2018.<br />
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Il Tappeto di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Carpet) is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2015 and Save The Children partner since 2015 that operates in the Naple’s eastern neighborhood of Barra children in the arts of circus, theater and parkour. It was named after Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who escaped from life as a child slave and became an activist against bonded labor in the 1990s.<br />
Barra, which is home to some 45,000 people, has the highest rate of school dropouts in the Italian region of Campania. Once a thriving industrial community, many of the factories were destroyed in a 1980 earthquake and never rebuilt. The resulting de-industrialization turned Barra into a poor, decaying neighborhood. There are no cinemas, theaters, parks or public spaces in Barra.<br />
The vast majority of children from poor families are faced with the choice of working in the black economy or joining the ranks of the organised crime.<br />
Recently, Save the Children Italy opened a number of educational and social spaces in Barra. The centers, known as Punti Luce, or points of light, aim to help local kids stay out of the ranks of the organised crime and have also become hubs for Iqbal's Carpet to work.
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