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!
June 19, 2025
by Titus Dallmann, Apprentice, Uzbekistan
I first heard about REI from my brother. This led to an opportunity to go to the REI staff conference in 2022 and talk to several people who were very passionate about the vision of building people to build nations. Their passion excited me, especially the idea of being able to use my business degree in interesting work overseas. Hearing the stories of what REI had done in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, and other places really motivated me to use my skills this way too. The prospect of working alongside the local people in these countries who will actually be the ones to change their country for the better was a good one – focusing on what the locals really wanted and not just what we westerners thought they wanted . . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed
East Java, Indonesia