CREATIVE Voices
Q & A: Joel Schlesinger on the “Youth Bulge” Challenge
Joel E. Schlesinger is the Vice President and Director of Creative’s Education, Mobilization and Communication division. In the 1990s, Schlesinger, as USAID’s Mission Director to Mali under Administrator J. Brian Atwood, led one of eleven missions that became the Clinton Administration’s “re-engineering laboratories.” “It was a time of [...]
Gangs in Central America’s Barrios: Children without Childhoods
Some barrios in El Salvador and Honduras are incongruously known by such names as “Divine Paradise” or “Heaven’s Field.” If you walk down the paved streets of of Mejicanos, Apopa or Soyapango in El Salvador or Nueva Suyapa, Rivera Hernández or López Arellano in Honduras you will see people have water and electricity. There is even a [...]