This event is certainly star-studded, and I nearly (literally) ran into Angelina Jolie on the way to the bathroom. (Note: For all you young women out there, in real life she looks like a totally normal, very skinny woman.) The photo flashes go into high gear when she walks into the room. I guess we're all suckers for movie stars.

Introduced by Gene Sperling, Jolie talks about her cause of support for refugee children in relation to education. Her speech is laden with the overly American viewpoint that an education will be the difference and these refugees sitting on a dirt floor in Africa can, with an education, become the prestigious leaders of their countries. Toward the end of the speech, she addressed Iraqi refugees and said a few hours of war funding would pay for the educations of 150 million children.

Update: Where do the refugees go? Recently, attentention has come to the millions of refugees who have left Iraq, meanwhile, the United States, arguably the incitor of the conflict in Iraq, has absorbed very few of the refugees. Also, refugees are also in a semi-permanent situation, so that's why this working group is working toward building schools. 

One questioner says that India is affected by the lack of education as well, but the major cause is simple poverty. 

Update II: The American Association of Young People (who broght you idealist job fairs in the past) asked about tuition reimbursement in exchange for doing public service. CGI's education group sounded open to partnernships, but didn't go into depth.