I hope this situation isn't happening in your country.
The demographic drain that the interior of my country is experiencing is one of the greatest challenges for the coming years. Green employment is one of the opportunities for those who want to return to the village. 
According to the latest INE (National Statistics Institute) data, rural areas of Spain are losing more than five inhabitants every hour and, with statistics in hand, the figures are far from improving. The situation is dramatic in the interior of the peninsula with this great "black hole"
Although Spain has increased its population by 15.4% since 2000, there are over thirteen provinces have gone the other way: Cuenca, Soria, Huesca, Teruel, Lugo, Orense, Albacete, Zamora…. If we want to preserve our roots and turn our country into an innovative, cooperative and leading model in sustainability, we must rely on the rural environment,
When we talk about depopulation, we talk about a problem of services, imbalance and lack of opportunities. We talk about the fact that in recent decades Spain has achieved the welfare state as a whole, but this has not reached rural areas. There is a great lack of transport and telecommunications. And this is what will be the future of the rural world: new technologies, including the Internet and fibre optics.
Ensuring that young people who currently live in villages continue to do so is another of the keys to halting the advance of depopulation in Spain. To help achieve this goal, there are numerous projects to improve the lives of their neighbours with the support of local social or environmental organisations.
Undoubtedly, technology opens up a huge range of possibilities. Last year a group of my students (10th grade), while working on a eTwinning project about olive oil, "discovered" Oliete, a tiny village in Teruel with a population of just 364 inhabitants. However, the olive trees spread over its 86 square kilometres have several thousand virtual "godparents" thanks to "Apadrina un olivo" (Adopt an Olive Tree), a project that aims to save the hundred thousand centenary trees of this type that, after decades of neglect, seemed doomed to die.
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2018/07/adopt-an-olive-t…
Before starting olive harvesting campaign, different activities, workshops, webinars and courses are offered to address and prepare the community on the cultural value of its olive trees and to encourage young people to continue this tradition in their home villages...
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