By Erna Solberg for Reuters.
One serious cost of the continuing civil war in Syria and the devastating earthquake in Nepal is that a generation of children is growing up without an education.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian children are living in refugee camps with no access to schools or whose classrooms were destroyed by the fighting. Nepalese children, meanwhile, are still waiting for earthquake-damaged schools to be repaired.
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This is why the creation of an international Commission on Financing of Global Education Opportunities at the recent Oslo Summit on Education for Development was so timely. The summit discussions emphasized the need to fund education, particularly for the estimated 65 million children age 3 to 15 living in dire circumstances worldwide.