The Plan to End Poverty · 2025 edition

Ending poverty by 2050, by design.

We already have the people and the skills. What we run out of is the budget line. The Plan to End Poverty is a designed system, built on three instruments that pay for essential work, give everyone a path to stability, and connect every citizen to the services they need.

This is not charity. This is structure.

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Three instruments, one system

Each one does a single job. Together they make poverty unnecessary.

Instrument 1

Civic Credits

Pay for the work a community needs

Civic Credits pay for service to the community: a verified shift as a teacher, doctor or nurse, and also volunteer work such as cleaning up the neighbourhood or other public services. Credits appear in the wallet the next morning. Shops can accept them, governments take them for taxes and fees, and businesses can exchange them for dollars. They are created only after real work is done, and they run alongside ordinary money.

Maya, a nurse, works an 8-hour shift and 320 credits post overnight. She spends 50 on groceries, 10 on a bus pass and 30 on her power bill. The grocer keeps 20 to pay local fees and swaps the rest for dollars that afternoon.

Instrument 2

Poverty Elimination Centers

A complete path from struggle to stability

For people facing homelessness, unemployment, addiction or long-term hardship, a PEC brings everything under one roof: housing, meals, healthcare, counselling, education, job training and real work experience. Joining is a choice, never a requirement.

The first campuses are planned for capital cities in the United States and Australia, each for up to 1,000 residents.

Instrument 3

LifeLink

One device for every public service

LifeLink is a small device provided free to every citizen. It connects you to education tools, appointments, mental-health support, emergency help, community events, your Civic Credit wallet and the people who represent you.

No more paperwork, and no more getting lost between agencies.

The moral foundation

The New Morality

Everything starts with one idea: humans should treat each other better than any generation before us. Kindness becomes expected, fairness becomes normal, and respect becomes the baseline.

“Treat another as the God in you would treat the God in the other.”

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The plan is free to learn. Choose the pack written for your role, and it will be sent to you.

Write to shareef@peopleoftheworld.net with the pack you'd like.

Everyday peopleWhat changes for you and your family.
Community leadersRunning Civic Credits and PECs locally.
EntrepreneursAccepting credits and building on LifeLink.
GovernmentsPilots, policy and national rollout.
Investors and fundersWhere support goes and how impact is measured.
PressThe story, the founder and key facts.
Scientists and economistsThe mechanics and the questions pilots must answer.

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Putting the plan to work?

Individuals, students and community groups use the plan freely. Governments, businesses and organisations that build programmes or earn revenue from it work with People of the World under a licence or partnership, which funds the mission.

Partner enquiries Tell us who you are, where you work and what you'd like to build. shareef@peopleoftheworld.net

Questions people ask

Is People of the World political?

No. It is structural and moral, not partisan.

Do Civic Credits replace money?

No. They run alongside regular currency. Workers and employers can choose them, and can switch back to ordinary wages.

Where do the dollars come from?

From the community's own assets. Revenue from selling or licensing public resources, and income from public works and utilities, backs the exchange of credits for dollars. The more the commons earns, the more credits it can back.

Will prices go up?

Credits are created only when new services are delivered, so more money is matched by more nurses, teachers and builders at work.

Does everyone have to join a PEC?

No. PECs exist for people who need help or want a structured path to improvement.

Do I have to pay for LifeLink?

No. LifeLink is provided to every citizen.

Who created the plan?

Shareef Ali Rashada, founder of People of the World.

Help build it.

The first pilots need funding: the Civic Credits software, the first Poverty Elimination Center, and LifeLink development.

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