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!
May 1, 2025
by Randy Bruins, Field Staff, Kazakhstan
“Welcome to the end of the world!” grinned our host, Serik Abilov, as he greeted us at the airport. “All planes that arrive here turn around and go back where they came from, because there is nowhere to continue on to!”
The small city of Oskemen may indeed be located in eastern Kazakhstan’s rugged borderlands with Russia and China, but it didn’t feel remote to us. For several years now, REI has been cultivating friendships and academic ties here at the Kazakh American Free University (KAFU). . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed
East Java, Indonesia