mothers like sophia ashihundu can't home school their children. the family has no laptop, tablet, or computer, and the power is often out anyway. sophia: i can't check their answers. i didn't go to school. so instead they go to the neighbors who do that for me. reporter: sophia's 14 year old daughter sheila gets up at 6:00 in the morning to do o her homework. she waits eagerly for school lessons to begin on the screen at her neighbor's house. sheila: sometimes i just lose hope because we don't have anything. we don't have a father. my mother is struggling for us. i need to learn for her so that i can help her. in the next life, i don't want to suffer likeke this. when i grorow up, i want to be the best surgeon so that i can help my mother. reporter: sheila's frightened of missing too many lessons. so she goes round to study at her neighbor's whenever they're at home. since the beginning of the crisis, the government has been working with the united nations children's fund unicef to expand remote learning school programs. it's an attempt to avert th