Steve Prusky: Rescue Task Force’s Clean Water Filter Project

Starting as a summer employee in 1982, Steven Prusky worked full time at Windsor Securities, Inc., after earning his BA in computer science with honors at Brown University. Now the owner and president of the company, Steven Prusky is also involved in charitable activities. he is a Board Mmeber of Rescue Task Force (RTF.ORG). 

Offering its services since 1988, RTF is a nonprofit organization that aids those who are suffering because of economic or geographic deprivation. It often assists people who are beyond the reach of traditional relief providers.

One of its initiatives is its Clean Water Filter Project for Honduras Jungle Villages. This program provides Miskito Indian families living in Honduran jungle villages with water filters. Jungle villagers in areas visited by the organization revealed 100 percent parasitic and worm infestations. Clean water, which can be achieved by distributing individual family water filters, is integral to breaking the infestation cycle. 

Steven Prusky has personally overseen such water installation projects in Honduras, Cambodia, and Laos. His most recent on-the-ground involvement with TRF was in helping to provide Laotian girls with knowledge and books regarding feminine hygiene -- and often otherwise taboo subject.

At one of RTF’s project villages, the use of water filters reduced incidences of diarrhea by 90 percent. While diarrhea is an inconvenience in developed countries, it can often cause death due to dehydration among the very young and the very old in less developed parts of the world.