deborah patta has more. >> thousands of children like these had no learning at all because of a lack of access to technology, forcing educators to come up with creative solutions. online learning is all very well if there is good intercept in your neighborhood, but if you live in a poor township and n' electricity, it's impossible. so going back to school was the only solution for many students. access to resources may differ from school to school but protocols are the same. temperature checks, marks, hand sanitization and social distancing. the secondary zmool an impoverished rule area took it one step further. every child in the classroom knows that an education is their only ticket to a better future and they were not going to let a pandemic stand in the way of that. while other children were playing during south africa's hard lockdown, these final year students moved in with their teachers, who supervised their studies in small home groups. >> they are four people in each room and we get lunch after school. >> he's the top performing student. >> important to get a good education,