Melissa Witkowich '16 was taken aback when she and a group of her Manhattan College classmates pulled into Scampia, Italy — an area just north of Naples — and were greeted by a mass of teenagers banging on their van with sticks.

They weren't angry, insists Witkowich, but overcome with joy to have visitors, which are a rarity given the city's reputation for extreme poverty, violence and drug use. The Camorra, a Mafia-like crime organization, has perpetuated much of the illegal activity that's been occurring there for decades.

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