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!
January 17, 2025
by K. Douglas Erdmann, President & CEO
Once every two years? Due to the logistics and expense involved with gathering staff from around the world, our in-person staff conferences do not happen very often. Because of that, we really want to make them count. This most recent conference did indeed COUNT!
Held the first full week of January, the location was Chiang Mai, Thailand. Previous conferences always occurred in the U.S. An overseas venue, though, made it easier and cheaper for staff to travel to. Also, experts agree that, at least for new staff, meeting in a location outside of one’s home country is better for cross-cultural adjustment to one’s target country. . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed
East Java, Indonesia