Invisible Children

Maya Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming from the community level.  Arguing that the existing global agenda for children has failed, this book reimagines how society can support the world’s most vulnerable children.  In doing so, Invisible Children identifies and gives voice to the millions of children globally living on society’s margins, while showing a way forward as to how we can best invest in children.

• poverty
• foreign assistance
• community based organizations
• grassroots
• international NGOs
• multillaterials
• grantmakers
• USAID
• UNICEF
• global philathropy
• SDGs Sustainable Development Goals
• MDGs Millenium Development Goals
• youth unemployment
• children in conflict
• regugee children
• child trafficking
• HIV/AIDS
• CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child
• social entrepreneurship
• community driven development
• development theory

• Society for Science and the Public, Washington, USA

  Maya Ajmera

• Philanthropy Directions International, Manassas, USA

  Gregory A. Fields

Maya Ajmera is currently President and CEO of the Society for Science & the Public, and Publisher of Science News. She is a professorial lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.  She founded and led for 18 years The Global Fund for Children that invests in innovative community based organizations serving the most vulnerable young people in the world.

Gregory A. Fields worked with Maya Ajmera at the Global Fund for Children, emphasizing fund raising, strategic planning and external relations.  Subsequent to his time at GFC, he founded an international development consultancy, and is now a professional writer and editor.

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