A school in Tanzania which has only one book for 400 students is to benefit from an exhibition taking place in York.

Photographers will be selling their work at York Cemetery Chapel on Saturday and Sunday to raise cash for the Mwenge School.

The school has no electricity and no running water, classes of up to 70, teachers who often do not get paid their five dollars a week and the only book is an atlas from 1956.

Other items needed include science and English textbooks from GCSE level upwards, teacher-training textbooks, dictionaries, atlases, encyclopaedias, filing paper, exercise books, packs of pens and pencils, metal cabinets, coat lockers and safes.

All donations should be taken to Oxfam in York or for larger items phone 01904 624293. Financial donations towards £1,250 of transport costs are welcome too.

Donations brought to the picture exhibition will be rewarded with a free cup of Fairtrade tea or coffee.

Updated: 10:59 Wednesday, June 09, 2004