A photojournalist captures REI’s recent medical work in Vietnam.

Welcome to the new and improved Resource Exchange International website and to the first EVER REI blog!

Learn more about REI and join the REI community by reading and discussing the stories we share on our blog. This week we’re featuring the photojournalism of Courtney Potter, a photographer who recently went to Vietnam to record the training our world-class ENT surgeon volunteers gave to local Vietnamese surgeons.

We hope to use this blog as a means of transporting you to the ground level of our work. By reading this blog, you become a part of the REI community. Share your thoughts with us, tell your own stories, and make new friends as you learn about our work overseas.

To kick things off, we’d like to share the photojournalism of Courtney Potter with you, a photographer who recently went to Vietnam to record our work there. In April, REI sent a world-class team of ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat) surgeons to Vietnam to do training for Vietnamese surgeons and hospital staff, and Courtney Potter tells the story beautifully with her lens. Enjoy!

Above: A Vietnamese surgeon in surgery clothes.

Above: An REI volunteer performs a routine check-up on his young Vietnamese patient.

Above: The Vietnamese hospital staff gathers around an REI Volunteer to learn from him as he performs surgery.

Above: One of the Vietnamese hospital staff and an REI volunteer enjoy each others’ company.

Above: An REI Volunteer and many Vietnamese hospital staff discuss a patient’s X-Ray before surgery.

Above: Tools used for the upcoming surgery.

Above: Vietnamese surgeons join REI’s volunteers in performing a surgery.

Above: The Vietnamese hospital staff and REI volunteers reaffirm their friendship with a hearty handshake.