The folks at YourAfricanAdventure.com and Chance of a Lifetime Travel (COLT) would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We would particularly like to thank those people who volunteered in Africa over the past year, whether that was working with wildlife, helping with local African communities, volunteer work with orphans, medical assistant volunteers… if you dug a hole or laid a brick it was equally important.

Every minute given by you volunteers is of immense value. It really does change people’s lives. A lot of the time it’s impossible to quantify but here are a few figures that illustrate the good you’ve done.

In Kenya volunteers have given over 10,000 hours of their time helping in hospitals, HIV clinics and local community projects that ranged from painting walls to teaching arts and crafts.

In the township clinics of Cape Town, South Africa, volunteers have given over 2,600 hours to help the health and well-being of the children and adults in the poorer areas of the city.

In Livingstone, Zambia, volunteers have found 35,000 hours to help with a huge variety of medical, teaching and sports projects which make a tremendous positive impact on the people there.

The list goes on. Some people give a couple of weeks, some have several months to commit. We sincerely thank each and every one of you.

If you’re thinking of volunteering to work in Africa in 2010 we would love to hear from you. Please check out the variety of exciting opportunities here and then drop us a line. We’re here to get you where you want to go – and we’ll help in any way we can. Just ask.