This week, REI-Vietnam has unveiled its new website.
After many hours of working with a web developer, staff members, and copy-editors, REI-Vietnam has finally completed the renovations on their new website.
At REI-Global, we’re proud of them!
After many hours of working with a web developer, staff members, and copy-editors, REI-Vietnam has finally completed the renovations on their new website.
At REI-Global, we’re proud of them!
REI sends two types of people overseas: resident professionals, who live and work in an emerging nation long-term, and visiting professionals, who spend a few weeks in a country volunteering their skills and knowledge in their various fields to local professionals.
We would like to honor some of these volunteers, who just recently took a trip to Vietnam, facilitated by REI-Vietnam staff member Cliff. In October, Cliff took a team of six doctors specializing in gastroenterology (the digestive system), cardiology (the heart), pulmonology (the lungs and other respiratory functions) to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for a two-week volunteer trip.
On Thursday, October 28, 2010, Mount Merapi erupted, spewing hot gas and debris that killed 35 people. The eruptions continued into Friday, forcing 50,000 people to stay in temporary camps outside the radius of the blast. Those in the camps couldn’t even use the water to clean the food because it was so full of dust.
REI’s President and CEO, Roderick Beidler, just returned last week from a round-the-world trip to visit REI staff in East Africa and the Middle East. He was joined by REI’s Regional President for East Africa and the Middle East, Rick Heupel, and together they visited REI’s staff in Djibouti and Jordan—and boy, were they excited about what they saw.In Roderick’s words, “Nothing substitutes for being there!”
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