

STLI Projects in Kyrgyzstan
Agricultural Support Project, Nuts
Grassroots best practices training in agriculture including consultations for nut and fruit tree propagation, crop production, grafting, and growing vegetables and flowers for small business sales.
Community Development - Kara Suu
Community Development in the rural south includes a range of health-related teachings such as teeth-brushing for preschoolers, support for adolescent girls, leadership training with teens, and pregnancy classes for young mothers. They also assist with phototherapy light distribution in the South.
Disability Prevention
Reducing the causes of cerebral palsy through phototherapy light construction, distribution, and training for treating jaundice in infants.
Community Development - Ak Jar
Our multinational team works to engage underdeveloped communities through preventative medical care, counseling services, physical therapy for disabled children, and family support for single and abused women. The Ak Jar project works through local partners to engage families and communities in projects aimed at supporting holistically healthy families and communities.
Rural Health Project
Helping to address Kyrgyzstan's rural healthcare crisis by training and mentoring rural health workers both online and in-person, including nurses, mid-level providers, and family medicine residents and trainers. The goal is to help our local partners equip a new generation of interdisciplinary rural health teams.
Agricultural Support Project, Dairy Cows
Training in the fundamentals of animal husbandry (cows) so that local resources (cows, feed, crops, etc.) are used more efficiently and livelihoods in rural areas are improved.
Engineering
Appropriate Technology Introduction in Kyrgyzstan (ATIK) includes working with local farmers to solve their felt needs in the areas of water systems, housing insulation, solar power, and stove efficiency.
Disabilities/Family Assistance
This project assists families with disabled family members (especially children) through training, coordination of equipment, and distribution of resources to people with special needs, their families, health workers, partnering NGOs, and other community groups as appropriate.
End-of-Life Care
This project is seeking to nurture a new profession in this country. Their mission is to provide holistic care for families and patients during the final stages of life as well as nurture professionals coming alongside them to provide on-the-job training and guidance.
Rehabilitation Education Development
A key focus of the Kyrgyzstan Rehabilitation Education Development (KRED) project is to support the development of rehabilitation professions that are not yet established in the area, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy (ergotherapy), and speech pathology (including therapy for adults and swallowing disorders). The project aims to build strong relationships with local therapists who have been working to develop these fields for many years.
Language
Providing English language classes, practice, training, and consulting to enhance future job opportunities for students. STLI is actively recruiting new workers for this project.
Additional STLI Work in Kyrgyzstan
Field Administration & Accounting
The STLI Kyrgyzstan Administrative Personnel in Bishkek provides vital accounting support, training, and document needs for in-country ex-pat workers and their families.
Counseling
Mentoring local counselors in Kyrgyzstan to support a growing need and awareness of mental health care.
Mobile Medical Clinic
Expat and local medical professionals (family medicine, pediatric, and other specialists) travel throughout Kyrgyzstan providing free holistic medical care in underserved regions, working in concert with local leadership.
Annual Conference
STLI Kyrgyzstan personnel living and serving around the country gathers each spring.
Business Sustainability
Training, consulting, and reproducible methods to develop small businesses in villages around the country. STLI is actively recruiting new workers for this project.