He described it as the gap year trip he never had.

Peter Warr, 60, from Littlebourne, has just returned from a life-changing visit to Tanzania.

He has hundreds of experiences including being cursed by a witch doctor and becoming an honorary member of the Ha Tribe.

Father-of-three Mr Warr has pledged to raise £15,000 to build the first three classrooms of a new secondary school on the outskirts of Tabora.

“It was a culture shock,” he admitted. “It is a hand to mouth existence but what they have got they share.”

Malaria is endemic in Tanzania and in one village children are not named for the first year because of the high mortality rate.

Mr Warr spent one day helping out in a church-run health clinic, counting out 10,000 malaria tablets into bags of 14, enough needed for a two-week course of the drug.

“A father came in with a four-year-old child strapped to his back.

"He had driven a motorbike for 60km to get to the clinic because she was suffering from malaria, but when he unstrapped her he realised she had died on the way.

"She died for the sake of a 25p 14-day course of anti-malaria tablets.”

~For full story and pictures, see this week’s Kentish Gazette, out on Thursday.