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Kirstie Trup, 18, had a skin graft last month, just days after she and her friend Katie Gee, also 18, were splashed with battery acid on the Indian Ocean island off Africa.
They were left with burns on their faces, chests and hands.
Despite her ordeal, Kirstie cherished her time helping underprivileged children and wants to carry on the voluntary work next year.
She said: 'This experience, as horrible as it has been, has not deterred me from wanting to do more voluntary work in Zanzibar. In fact I would even like to return to do more work there next year.
'I am very determined to overcome my injuries and aid the investigation as much as possible.'
Miss Trup, from North London, is frustrated her assailants have not been caught after she gave police a detailed description of the attack in Stone own, the old part of Zanzibar City.
She told the Sunday Times: 'It doesn't make sense that our attackers haven't been caught. Stone Town is a small place and everyone knows everyone.'
She suffered severe burns to her shoulder and back after the sulphuric acid was thrown at her by one of two men on a moped as she and Katie walked home from a restaurant.
Three locals helped Miss Trup into the sea to help stop the burning, but she had to have a skin graft on August 15 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital after being flown home.
She is being treated three times a week as an outpatient while Miss Gee is thought to be still in hospital with more serious injuries.
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