PUPILS across Hampshire have welcomed a special visitor into their classrooms to learn more about the HIV and Aids crisis in Africa.

Dr Aloysius Bukenya travelled from Uganda to spend a month visiting schools in Eastleigh to educate youngsters and create more awareness of the epidemic in rural areas of his country.

The headmaster of a seminal school, and a missionary priest, visited more than 20 schools in the county, in a project organised with the Youth House Young People's Centre in West End, by community worker Chris Walsh and Dr Tony Rest, of West End Parish Council.