now, every evening, he shares his knowledge with the young herders in semonkong. whenfinish tending to the animals for the day, they come to julius's shepherd school. jere ma i they study reading, writing, and animalsarithmetic.y, they come julius teaches on a voluntarily basis. he believes that a basic educatca rdes juli theus: atnd of the day, they have been told that they have lost some of the sheep. and they didn't even know whether it's true or not. am sll trying to change that. reporter: another subject is health, including aids prevention. it's an important issue in lesotho, which has the second hihighest rate o of hiv infects worldwide. and a warm meal is sometimes provided, when there have been ghonions. for many, it's the only proper meal of the day. socializing is central to the time spent here. julius: it's lonely work. you have to care for the animals. then youou don't have timeme tok with other people. but it only happens here at the shepherd school. it's where they learn how to socialize, it's where they learn to speak with others, it's where they l

reporter: the cows jeremani tends belong to a farming family in semonkong, a small town in central lesotho. in exchange for his labor, he gets a roof over his head and he gets to keep a cow at the end of the year. the young teenager doesn't have time for school. his parents have died, so jeremani has to fend for himself. jeremani: this isn't my first job. but it's the first time i've been treated well. the last farmer i worked for, for example, just didn't pay me. i'm grateful things are going better here. reporter: in lesotho, one in three boys of school-age works full-time as a livestock herder, often miles away from their family, and without any hope of going to school full-time. most of the boys are illiterera, and wiwill likely remain so fr the restst of their lives. julius majoro is familiar with the situation. he had to leave school after second grade to earn money so he could look after his mother and two sisters. he says that's common in lesotho. but it wasn't the life he had hoped for. julius: it wasn't my intention to work as a shepherd. but because of the life circumstances, an