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.
As a non-profit, our organization and staff are financially supported by monthly and annual donations. Give today to be a part of building people to build nations!
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!
July 1, 2025
by Karen Flowers, Country Leader, Egypt
On December 28, 2007, my life radically changed. A tiny little girl named SuSu was born into a family I had been close to since I’d moved to Egypt. Her story is like that of many little girls in the villages of Egypt, far from the city of Cairo. But hers was destined to be different. It was not my intention to fall in love with her, and yet I did. Hers was the first birth I was a part of here. I was there for her first bath, her first tooth, her first steps, grade school and high school . . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed
East Java, Indonesia