Transformation
We connect skilled professionals with strategic global opportunities: sharing knowledge, building local capacity and fostering long-term transformation in communities around the world.
Building People to Build Nations
A Movement
Whether you're looking to serve abroad, support global development or collaborate on meaningful projects, we invite you to join a movement of people investing their lives for the good of others.
"I’m thankful REI believed in me and gave me the chance to learn and grow.... They not only enriched my career but also my life."
Liên Hà, Supervising Midwife, Hanoi Obstetrics & Gynecology Hospital and REI Exchange Fellow
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Create Lasting Change
Through education, business, health and sustainable development initiatives, we partner with leaders and institutions to exchange ideas, grow together and create change that lasts.
With REI, you're joining a movement equipping local leaders to build sustainable futures for their people.
by K. Douglas Erdmann, REI President & CEO
February 2, 2026
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Houaphanh is a rural province in Laos bordering Vietnam. Known for its beautiful forests and mountainous topography, it is also famous for being one of the most heavily bombed parts of Laos during the Vietnam War. The area is slowly being cleared of bomb remnants, but it is anticipated it will take another 200 years or longer to fully clear the land.
A couple years ago our REI country leaders for Laos at that time, Bill and Ann Munson, were asked if they could locate a few incubators for a hospital in the capital city. This led to a request from the Lao Ministry of Health . . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed