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In South Africa it's a fact that not every student has equal access to computers and not every school has digitally trained teachers. To try and correct the "digital gap" in South African schools, an organisation called Africa Teen Geeks has launched a big training programme for teachers, with the aim of broadening access to computer science and robotics for school kids.

Lindiwe Matali is founder and CEO of Africa Teen Geeks. She told Newsday:

鈥淥ur teachers are at the same level with the students - they do not have the digital skills. Our focus is to try to help them to be computer literate first and then teach them to code, so they can teach the kids the curriculum.鈥�

鈥淚f you look at the history of South Africa, a lot of teachers in disadvantaged and poor schools never got quality teaching degrees either. We trained 1,000 teachers how to teach online, how to teach a video lesson. We still have students studying under trees. When it comes to education, it can never be left in the hands of the government.鈥�

Photo: Children at a primary school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Getty Images)

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