Introduction The main objective of this project was to investigate the link between Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) in the UK, and Goodwill Children's Homes (GCH) in Tamil Nadu. Mutual, intercultural learning activities have been in existence between teachers of UK-India since 2000. The idea of a joint study came from the fact that no systematic research had been carried out that aimed to understand intercultural exchange learning processes in a globalized world. A number of student groups from CCCU and their tutors have been visiting Southern India as part of their education and field work for periods of three weeks for the last ten years. As part of this visit, the groups stay at GCH Thandgudi for 8 – 10 days to interact with staff and children. In 2008, while interacting with the visiting groups it was suggested that a systematic research could be undertaken in order to find out what changes occurred among the visiting and host groups, for both students and teachers, as a result of their stay and interactions. This formed the basis of the study we now report. This is a kind of interpretive or explorative research that involves a study tour, group discussion, and interaction with children, teachers, students, staff and administrators. As educators ourselves, we were interested to understand the dynamics of changing behaviour, attitude of the teachers, house mothers, children and society through intercultural and mutual learning. Background information: India and Tamil Nadu India