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For over 20 years, Steven Prusky has performed a number of executive functions at Windsor Securities, Inc., in Pennsylvania, such as computerizing the company’s data collection process and developing sevral equity and bond trading strategies. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Steven Prusky supports several non-profit organizations, both financially and through time spent. One of Mr. Prusky’s favorite non-government-organizations is the Rescue Task Force (RTF).
Founded in 1988, RTF’s mission is to reduce suffering and offer developmental assistance to communities isolated by geography or poverty. One way RTF fulfills its mission consists of an initiative to provide free medical care to indigenous peoples of Central America and Southeast Asia.
The agency has constructed clinics and arranged medical care, for example, for Miskito Indians, many of whom have never received modern medical care. Provided often as “gifts-in-kind”, many US manufacturers have provided truckloads of dental and medical equipment, wheelchairs, and medicines supply three medical facilities. RTF helps to deploy those resources.
RTF improved patient accessibility by locating its clinics at river hubs that cut travel time from six days to one. In places where a local doctor saw five people each day, RTF practitioners now see upwards of 300 patients per day. These doctors — and RTF provided water filters — are already saving the lives of populations affected by snakebites as well as intestinal diseases.
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