There are places the economy has stopped looking at: towns far from big cities, areas that seem faded on the map. Inner regions, outskirts, margins where services are scarce and opportunities thin out.

Between Dallas and Kyiv, between an algorithm and a classroom, the same trajectory unfolds: that of an economy putting the human person back at the center.

Audrey and Anna live in two distant worlds — Indonesia and Slovakia — but share the same vision: the economy is not a system of numbers; it is a network of relationships. In their journeys, female protagonism is not a claim but a practice: shaping, through work and life, an economy capable of generating beauty and future.

From Kenya to Peru, Nigeria to the United States, a new generation is drawing new maps to inhabit this Jubilee time: giving breath to the Earth, restoring balance, and changing how we measure value.

This article is the first in a series that will accompany readers until November, telling sixteen stories from around the world. Each chapter will focus on a theme: care, as in this first installment, then ecology, marginal territories (...)