Exeter pupils are spending this week raising money for a secondary in Africa as teenagers from the poverty- stricken school visit the city.In the past six years, staff and students from St Peter's School have donated £10,000 to All Saints School in Mtunthama, Malawi.
The school's connection with the country began when head of IT Andrew Hubbard worked as a teacher there for three years until 2005.
Mr Hubbard took a group of students to Malawi for the first time last year and more will return next July.
Four students and headmaster Kennedy Kamphambe, who are staying with staff and pupils from St Peter's, have attended church and lessons. St Peter's pupils have also run a cake sale this week, which raised £95 for the African school.
The students from Malawi also travelled to Plymouth to meet leaders at St Andrew's Church, which founded the charity Medic Malawi.
The charity's chairman Mac Forsyth took a special assembly at the school on Wednesday, when the Malawian students sang.
He explained to the Exeter youngsters that the African school had only four classrooms and there are up to 100 in each class. The library has only textbooks donated from the UK and the science laboratory is unfinished.
Many students have to walk up to 10 miles to lessons, which begin at 7.30am.
"Medic Malawi appreciates enormously the help we get from St Peter's," Mr Forsyth told students.
"You are making a huge difference to people's lives."
This week is the first time the Malawi visitors have seen frost, been to the cinema, seen the sea or been on a train.
Mr Kamphambe said he couldn't believe the difference between St Peter's, which has a new building, and his own school.
"Everything is so amazing, our school is very small compared to this," he said.
The Malawi students are 13-year-old Sapulain Chitonde, Daniel Mulombwa and Paul Nkhoma, both 18, and Loveness Banda, 17.
The African students helped their new English friends prepare a supper to celebrate St Peter's Africa Week on Thursday
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