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A Volunteer Shares his Once-in-a-Lifetime Big Cat Experience!
Today’s Big Cat Monitoring Drive started not only with glorious sunshine but with fantastic news… Brian had received a call

A message from our MD, Greg Bows
This year was nothing any of us could have predicted or expected. This existential global crisis has reached and affected

Alumni Competition: Win a Free Volunteer Project Placement
Tell us how volunteering has impacted your life, and win a free placement at any of our volunteer projects in

Travelling to Africa during COVID-19
Our Big Cat Wildlife Research & Conservation Project in Kenya has been our first project to reopen. British volunteer, Tom

Thank you, Zanzibar
This is Jerome’s story about his volunteering trip with African Impact to Zanzibar. I have travelled quite extensively throughout my

Favourite Parts of my Volunteer Trip to Livingstone
Kelsey, an African Impact team member’s experience at the volunteer programs in Livingstone, Zambia. As I flew into Livingstone, I

Volunteering Safely with Us
In the 15 years that African Impact has been working within communities living with HIV, TB, and other diseases, we

Volunteer in Africa: 5 Unforgettable Gap Year Ideas for 2021
Gap Year Goals: See the World, Have Fun, Make a Difference School is finally over and it’s time to look

Why I Love Black and White Photography – Clemens Lukasser
A former photography volunteer in Africa talks about his love for black and white photography and shares his best black and white photos from the field.

Astrophotography – How to Capture the Night Sky (with Sophie Brown)
Sophie Brown, a photographer in South Africa, shares some things she has learned about astrophotography while photographing the skies of Africa.