Once a well-known village with traditions, now the village of Shën Pjetër in Fier is suffering from a mass departure of young people. The mostly elderly residents of the village show the condition in which the village is located. They say that the youth have left because of employment and lack of income.

“Our village is nearly destroyed and there are no people residents. Here with me live some eldery woman, no young people. Emigration,” said a woman resident of Shen Pjetër.

“In Shën Pjetër were 350 houses with 1100 inhabitants. Today 1 and 4 are left. 1 in 3 houses is inhabited by elderly people. The houses are empty and falling down. People have left. I have a son in Italy and a daughter in Greece.”

Meanwhile, the low number of children has caused the school to close 3-4 years ago. Since the emigration of the last years came by families.

The reasons for depopulation in rural areas have several reasons, but one of them is the provision of small incomes that are provided by work in agriculture.