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This is the first time in nine months these students in the Sierra Leone capital have gone to classes.
The schools in Freetown, shut because of the Ebola outbreak, are opening their doors once more.
It's a sign the tide's turning against the disease and some of these pupils couldn't be happier to be back.
ESTHER HANNAH KARGGBO, STUDENT, SAYING:
I want to to be educated and the government has announced that schools need to be open to I just need to come to school no matter how the situation is."
Relatives of the returning pupils say they're satisfied with the health precautions in place.
DAVID KAMARA, BROTHER OF RETURNING STUDENT, SAYING:
"The measures they have put in are really good. I see buckets outside, the class use them."
More than 10, 000 people have died in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea where the epidemic was discovered a year ago.
In Sierra Leone, the government estimated more than 8, 600 children lost one or both parents to the virus.
Nearly 1500 children were among those who caught the disease.