---
title: "Wealth and poverty"
date: "2025-03-25T17:37:09+00:00"
modified: "2026-01-16T12:25:01+00:00"
url: "https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/res_perspective/wealth-and-poverty/"
post_id: 4898
---

# Wealth and poverty

What might motivate humanists to take action to combat poverty and inequality? How far do they believe our obligations stretch to support those in need?

[Download humanist perspective](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Wealth-and-poverty-humanist-perspective-1.pdf)

[Are there any humanist charities?](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/04/Humanism-and-charity.pdf)

[Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onsIdBanynY)

[Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save animation (BBC Radio 4)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGczdp0SE0c)

[What’s Fair? animation (Philosophy Foundation)](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015lqk2)

[Extract from Applied Ethics course on concern for others](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Wealth-and-Poverty-Applied-Ethics-Richard-Norman.pdf)