A Note from Tim

This new year is well underway with 2025 promising more opportunities for our short-term professional teams as well as for bringing exchange fellows coming to the US for professional training and ongoing relationship building. 

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REI has six teams planned for this coming spring. Believe it or not, we are still recruiting members to join the Kazakhstan and Vietnam Business teams. If you are or someone you know may be interested for this spring or this fall, please contact me at tmoore@reiinc.org.

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 Dr. Austin Raunikar is planning to return to Uzbekistan in March. The REI team in Samarkand is busy setting up meetings at universities and hospitals there in advance of his arrival. Dr. Raunikar plans to work with key people in hospitals and clinics, continuing to build the foundation for ongoing REI medical teams going to Uzbekistan.

 

Building on the success of our first business team to Kazakhstan last fall, REI is planning to send the team again mid-April 2025. The team will continue to provide business training at the Kazakh-American Free University (KAFU) in Oskemen, Kazakhstan as well as meet with ENACTUS students in Almaty.

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And finally, REI anticipates hosting the first exchange fellow for 2025 in April, going to Oklahoma City for three weeks. This is a highly effective program REI runs in partnership with the US State Department. REI anticipates bringing five fellows over in 2025, which is what we need to do to maintain our partnership with the State Department. But we would love to have as many of our volunteers participate in hosting and providing for these exchange fellows as we can. This is an opportunity for all of us to have a transformative impact – both professionally and personally – on these people coming from their countries and looking for more training and development.

 

Once again, I want to thank all of our volunteers who give of their time and resources to help us build people to build nations!​