Learn how REI builds people to build nations
We send long-term staff and short-term professionals
to train leaders in emerging countries so that they
can train others – building their nations and
bringing hope to future generations.
The work of REI is diverse in each emerging nation where we focus. Through education and medicine, business and agriculture, our highly skilled staff are training and developing others in nine locations in Asia and Africa.
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REI staff and apprentices partner long-term in nine locations in Asia and Africa, and volunteers take annual short-term trips. If your professional goals for international development match ours, come with us!
June 3, 2025
by K. Douglas Erdmann, President & CEO
Two weeks. 22,467 miles.
Last month Joyce and I circled the globe, jetting to Cairo, Djibouti, Dubai and Singapore. The reason? To encourage REI staff, and to recruit new REI staff.
Packing for the trip was easy. With summer approaching, and temperatures in the 100’s in at least two of our destinations, heavy clothes were not needed. On the other hand, gifts for the people we planned to visit and their children were needed, along with items that they had requested. One whole piece of luggage was dedicated to those necessities . . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed
East Java, Indonesia