DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ROMA MINORITY IN EUROPE
https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/urban-poverty/eurocities-report-maps-situation-roma-cities-europe.html
This link points to the European Commission web site, and a sub section focused on urban poverty and the ROMA ethnic group.

INDIA DEVELOPMENT COALITION OF AMERICA
https://www.idc-america.org/
From the web site; "IDCA inspires and promotes Social Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty and Mitigate/Adapt Climate Change in India. Through our various meetings in the US and India we promote networking, collaboration, learning, giving, and volunteering for poverty eradication and climate change Mitigation/Adaption in India."

INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA, SEEN FROM THE AIR
https://unequalscenes.com/
The host of this web site has used drones to photograph different places of South Africa, illustrating the stark differences between places of wealth and places of poverty. On the web site he writes, "Looking straight down from a height of several hundred meters, incredible scenes of inequality emerge. Some communities have been expressly designed with separation in mind, and some have grown more or less organically." 

INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT (ILID). INDIA - PROJECT PUPIL
https://ilid.org/
From the web site: "ILID is a not for profit consulting firm catering to the leadership and institutional development needs of organizations serving the poor in the Indian Society.  ILID is dedicated to applying leading-edge management strategies, tools and talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social impact. ILID helps non-profits to scale up and sustain their operations on a long term basis by using the various best practices, tools and frameworks used in the corporate sector.  ILID develops and delivers customized and distinctive strategies to produce the desired results for its clients." ILID Inc. registered as 501(c)(3) organization in USA is dedicated to help uplift the poor children living in America and India. Based out of New Jersey, the organization was launched in 2013 with the primary goal of helping the inner city schools and their students all over America by providing free supplementary education.  Project PUPIL was thus launched in 2013 with the help of Bill and Melinda Gates and Infosys Foundation. PUPIL in 2 years served about 1500 under served children from 17 states across America.

INTERESTING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY VIDEO LIBRARY - THE B1M
https://www.theb1m.com/all-content
From the website: "We inspire a better industry by sharing knowledge and expertise with a mass audience. We attract the best talent by showing construction at its best to millions."  Just browse through the collection of videos shown on the site and you're sure to find a few that interest you.

PYXERA GLOBAL - FOCUSES ON WORLD ISSUES
https://www.pyxeraglobal.org/
From the web site: "PYXERA Global envisions a world in which individuals, organizations, and institutions from different points on the globe converge to address complex challenges through sustainable and mutually beneficial efforts. For close to a quarter century, PYXERA Global has been working to improve lives and build capacity of individuals and institutions around the world. Today, our work is guided by our commitment to design and implement solutions that achieve real-world goals through approaches that inspire, enrich, and endure."  Browse the site and view the graphics and articles.

THE LIFE CYCLES OF EMPIRES - LESSONS FOR AMERICA TODAY?
https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/the-life-cycles-of-empires-lessons-for-america-today
From the website: "Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1987), a highly honored British general and historian better known as Glubb Pasha, wrote about the collapsed empires of the past. In his 1978 book The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival, he described a common pattern fitting the history of some fallen empires. They went through a cycle of stages as they started, expanded, matured, declined and collapsed."  

Read the article and ask if there are parallels to the life cycle of America.

TOP PRIORITIES FOR AFRICA IN 2017 - BROOKINGS.EDU REPORT
https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/foresight-africa/
While Tutor/Mentor Connection focuses on poverty in Chicago and other  US cities, what happens in other parts of the world affects what happens in the US.

TRUE SIZE OF DIFFERENT CONTINENTS - HINT AFRICA IS HUGE
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/handy-applet-will-remind-distorted-maps/
This article should be used in history and geography classes so students get a true picture of the relative size of different continents.

ZENPUNDIT - A BLOG FOCUSED ON HISTORY, STRATEGY, MILITARY THEORY, MORE
http://zenpundit.com/
From the web site: "Zenpundit is a blog dedicated to exploring the intersections of foreign and defense policies, history, military theory, national security, strategic thinking, futurism, cognition, forensic theology, cultural intelligence and a number of other esoteric pursuits."  One of the writers is Charles Cameron who the Tutor/Mentor Connection has built a relationship with through sharing ideas on the Social Edge web site since 2005. Charles passed away n 2020.