The 2050 Collective

The Future We Seek: Vision2050

The art at the top of this page captures the fact that the path out of poverty has gotten even harder following covid. 

Nevertheless, we believe that people living in poverty continue to generate viable and creative solutions that can transform both their lives and our shared future. However, reduced access to important resources such as education, adequate healthcare, food security, mentoring and finance means that an even smaller number of these visionaries will get to develop their ideas into their full form.

We need to open new pathways out of poverty. We must build new partnerships. We must also reinforce the existing grass-roots organizations that are doing great work with the most affected populations.

The second and third panels show the predicted increased flow of people falling back into poverty in the years ahead, if we do nothing.

The 2050 Collective aims to gather a global community of people who can support each other in a collective drive to change this trajectory.

What do we owe our kids?

What do we owe our kids? What do we owe all of our kids across the globe, in every home, in every community, in every social class, of all abilities and in every identity group?  

We owe them a world that is livable. 

      We owe them a present and a future that is built in humble partnership with them. 

         We owe them a future in which no creed or religion has the right to condemn them to a life of suffering. 

We owe them a pledge to learn with them and to change with them as we learn more about this world that we share.  

We can start by helping one more person in our local spaces to find a sense of community and belonging. We can go further by identifying the new revelations about human identity that most scares us, suspend judgment for a while, find a good book and learn about this brave new world. With any luck, what we learn might enrich our lives and help us to approach the future with a stronger spirit of hope.