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
Ready to make a difference?
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 Josiah Ng, REI Field Staff and Professor at Samarkand International University of Technology, Uzbekistan
It was only my third day as a university lecturer in Uzbekistan, and I was already surprisingly frustrated.
But my frustration wasn’t with the students, nor the work. It was because I was locked out of the school’s design lab where I teach, even though I had the key.
Three days earlier, the Head of Department had warmly welcomed me, placing a shiny but slightly stained key into my palm. I was excited.
My wife and I had after all spent the year preparing to move to Uzbekistan with our two sons, having been here before for a short-term trip with REI. I was all ready to build people to build nations for a longer term and impart design and communication skillsets to the youths of this emerging nation.
And now, here I was, standing outside a locked door, heart racing, brows furrowed . . .
People of emerging nations filled with hope
as their countries are developed and their lives transformed