Rescue Task Force, Temecula, CA (2026)

Rescue Task Force is an agile and innovative non-profit organization whose mission is to alleviate suffering and provide developmental aid to those who have been marginalized by geography or economic deprivation.

04/02/2026

Imagine the anticipation!!!!

For the RTF newsletters with proper picture placement please see our website home page: www.rescuetaskforce.org

Wheelchairs – Mobility!!!
Water Filters – Safe Clean Water!!!
9-1-1 Thailand, Pastor’s House Fire
A Toilet Not a newer toilet – their first one!!!

March, 2026

Dear Donors, Friends and Supporters in so many ways,

Your RTF teams do not just “show up” one day unannounced with truckloads of water filters, or a van full of wheelchairs – there is a lot of preparation to do. Most of that prep work falls to our country coordinators. In Cambodia we are blessed to have Phai Bodet (“Bodet”) as our country coordinator – and Board member.

In Cambodia, by law, we must get permission to do community wide projects. The Sangat (city hall) must grant permission and be assured that the upcoming project is not political. Also, we need the local community leaders help in identifying additional recipients and those most in need, and getting them assembled for the distribution(s). The people, usually subsistence rice farmers in rural areas, have to know to come in from the fields on a certain date and know when and where to meet.

With the wheelchairs the Sangat volunteers have identified needy homes and arranged for the caregivers to be there when we deliver the wheelchairs and, when most often needed, give a short class on maintenance and operations.

So, They well know we (You and the Team) are coming… For days they have waited…

Imagine the anticipation and the excitement!!!

Thank You – Thank You and God Bless you many times over for your generous support that make the work possible.

We hope you enjoy the following pictures and reports of what your donations are doing.
Gary, Steven and the RTF teams

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Cambodia Wheelchairs:
In the villages, and even in the big cities here in Cambodia, the people have an unusual custom: They sit and talk – actually visit! - neighbors gather almost daily and chat!!!

Imagine knowing all of your neighbors and being friends - with all of them!!!

When we talk with the recipients about their new wheelchair and I ask how will this help you?
Invariably we hear some version of…“Now I can get out…”

Red dot in the foreground is our local guide, on her motorbike,
showing us the way to the next wheelchair family.

Little Kahl Sok Kai, age 10, is in the second grade at school, even though born with severe birth / mobility defects, he is doing well in his studies. Father, who does local cement work, takes Kahl to school every day, and then back home, on his motorbike -about a 40-minute drive each way…

One… Two…

And Thee… Thanks to YOU…Instant Mobility!!!

Kahl and family send a big “Thank You”

Mrs. Mon Con, 61, suffered a stroke eleven years ago. She had a wheelchair but it simply wore out a couple of years ago and she has been house-bound ever since. It would be double terrible to lose your mobility, regain a degree of mobility, and then lose it again!

Na with Mon Con

Her husband cares for her and they are supported by a son who works in a far-off factory.
“Now I can Get Out!!!”

Mon, and her husband really appreciate this help, which will be of enormous assistance in tending to her bathing and toilet needs.

A very happy and thankful Mon

Kawl Lee is (was) a carpenter. When a scaffolding he was on collapsed and he fell 30 feet - damaging his right leg – and mangling his foot on the way down.

His doctor thinks he will recover but he is starting to show signs of gangrene of the foot.

He too is excited to be able to get out. He has never had a wheelchair; his arms work fine and he ’got the hang of it’ right away.

A traditional Khmer thank you!

78-year-old Mrs. Duul Saran says she is “just old”. Hips and legs just don’t work anymore.
Her daughter, whose husband works nights at a factory, cares for her.

They appreciate how this will help with toilet chores and… Duul is excited to be
“Getting out and see people!!!

Test Drive

And to our next delivery …

Mrs. Bo Lap, 69, had a stroke five years ago. Her daughter, who is a teacher, cares for her.

This is her first ever wheelchair and she is excited!!!

Mrs. Bo and Gary with the community leaders

Mrs. Bo, like all of YOUR donees is excited to “Go Outside!!!”

“Thank You!!

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Cambodia - Water Filters:
Thanks to your generous giving 40, more families have safe, clean water!!!

This distribution was at the Assembly of God Church in Kampot Province

Pastor Touch Heng, who is a teacher in 2-hours away Phnom Penh, appreciates the health values of the filters – and the community outreach opportunity.

The Church – and school behind

Bodet and team setting up inside the church

Gary delivers a short class on the care and cleaning of the filters and Bodet translates (Bodet could well do the presentation but the people enjoy seeing and hearing an American – and most often the first ever American to come to their village. Sorry – now they think you all look like me!!!…) “You put the dirty water in the top and clean water comes out the bottom.” All hands go up when we ask who has to buy or boil your water? “Tomorrow… No more buying or boiling water.” “Tomorrow, no more upset stomach, no more diarrhea and no more parasites.” –
(Parasite eggs and larva can pass from a mother to her nursing infant!)

The filter catches the particles and a special medicine, Colloidal Silver, kills bugs and bacteria on contact as water passes through the porous ceramic clay filter.

In these days of high technology everything, these filters have no batteries, no moving parts to break – easy to clean and simple to use… A Blessing!!!

Pastor Heng on the far right

I love the year-round Christmas tree(s)!!! We see this frequently here in Cambodia. Great!!!

Rapt attention – this is a big deal and owning a water filter, for most, this has never been even a wish!!!

At the close, I thank the community leaders for letting us come, and give a big thanks to the Pastor for hosting us. And in closing I talk about these filters providing safe clean water for a healthy life. We also invite everyone to come back on Sunday and Pastor Heng will teach you about…

“The Water of Life…”

The smiles say it all!

Heading home with your gift of clean water

Gary and Bodet

House Calls…..

Mrs. Oul Kim Leang sends her “Thanks”. She is 78 and there are 7 people in the household – supported by a daughter who works in a near-by factory. This one filter will serve all of them
for several years!

Chhon Nauy sells noodles from her roadside stall in the local market place.
There are five people in the home – all send their thanks and appreciation.

Mrs. Pech Run is a 67-year-old widow and truly appreciates no longer having to buy her water.
This is a big treat –
And a cost saving for her and her factory worker son who supports her!

After the water filter distribution Pastor Heng gave us a tour of the attached grammar school the church operates. They have 400 students in two daily sessions - neighborhood children pay $1 a month tuition - something the families can afford and gives them a sense of ownership…

Gary does a “meet-and-greet” with the kids, having fun with their newly learned “Fist Bump…”

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9-1-1 - Northern Thailand. House Fire

From Pastor Yawla, one of our country coordinators in Thailand and Burma relief projects.

These are Lahu Tribal people in northern Thailand:

“Dear Rescue Task Force,

We thank God for the provision for one our Pastor's house burned down by fire. Thanks for your prayers and financial support for their needs.

Pastor reported and said thanks for your prayers and financial support. They believed that this is from the Lord, God and answered their prayers. They don't know what to do because everything gone under the fire. They were hopeless but thank God and thanks to the Rescue Task Force came to help our need for food such as rice, vegetables, meat, eggs and also some clothes. Thank God and thank you for your help, right now we are able to have food on the table and able to go work for our needs in the future.

Once again Thanks, hope will get help from you again in near futures as the Lord leads you.”

God bless,
Pastor Yawla

RTF (YOU!!!) supplied funds for immediate food needs
and a host of kitchen utensils and supplies.)

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A Toilet – not a replacement toilet but a first one!!!

One more Hand to Hand to Hand
Your Hand to RTF’s Hand to Her Hand…

On the way home from another mission we finally connected with Pum Pammee, a sweet young mother on the outskirts of our home village. Na knows the family. Very poor.

We gave two bikes to her young school-age boys last bike distribution.

She works in a factory – leaves home before 6 in the mornings to get the bus, home around 7 in evening – six days a week. Typical. Sunday is her only day off and her husband is seldom home – he also works in a factory but in far off Phnom Penh.

We had received a request to help with a toilet for her and family…

They did not have one – not even an out-house!!!

Family is Pum and her 2 boys, her aged mother and father, who tends the kids while she is working, and a 30ish brother, nice guy, handsome, but has severe epilepsy. (We gave him $50 for direly needed phenobarbitrol epilepsy medicine. There is no Medi-Cal or Medicaid here – no money – no help!!!)

They live so far out in the sticks that not having a toilet is a manageable situation, but she really wanted a toilet and mentioned it to Na… YES!!! We (RTF) had it made for her - $300 for material, a brother and volunteers from the community did the construction and the septic tank labor.

No shower in the toilet house, typical, they prefer bucket bathing.

Construction finished last week but we wanted to wait until she was home on a Sunday to go see it…

Looks good!!! Also had chance to visit, with Na translating. Nice chat, and Pum is so very appreciative… As you can imagine!!!

Standing on the pre-construction site…

Foundation and septic tank

Ever used a ‘squat’ toilet???

Believe me, not like our western stool toilets…
I understand that these are actually much better health wise - but try getting up after…

Detached bathrooms like this are very typical here in Cambodia.

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We need your help – PLEASE…

If we have not heard from you lately, would you please consider a donation. Now!!!

Mid-April we will be receiving an entire 40-foot ocean freight shipping container full of hospital medical equipment. WER (World Emergency Relief), our project partner of many years has coordinated the donation for us. “Donation!!!” – the cargo is free – but we have to pay the ocean freight and some in-country customs and delivery fees – about $4,000.

RTF stock Photo (1988)
Details and pictures in next newsletter

Also, next letter; more filters and wheelchairs and a report from Dr. Minh, our RTF team volunteer dentist here in Cambodia, with update on dental clinic work for some needy children.

And, most likely, some surprise projects –
so surprising even we do not know yet what they will be…

Thank You for using Rescue Task Force as your Ambassador
to these and so many hurting hearts, and lives.

Every Donation is Important – And very much needed.

God Bless you richly for caring and for sharing your hard-earned dollars that make the work of RTF Possible over these many years… 38!!! years!!!
Yours In Service,

Gary Steven
Larry, Bob, Bodet, Andrea and the RTF Team(s)
Gary: cell (951) 595-1525 Messages Steven: (610) 642-3100
Direct Dial - Cambodia: 011 855 8787-5968

Rescue Task Force
27636 Ynez Road L-7 #357
Temecula, CA 92591 Phone (messages): (951) 595-1525
www.rescuetaskforce.org [email protected]

PS Your spirit of giving can continue for many years by simply remembering RTF when you write or next update your will. (Tax ID # / EIN 27-3504467)
And, when you do so, please let us know how you would like RTF to recognize you and your gift.

03/04/2023

We are not the only ones who give….

(For RTF newsletter with proper picture placement please see our website homepage: rescuetaskforce.org )

March 2, 2023

Dear Donors, Friends and Supporters in so many ways,
Thank you, thank you, thank you… It is your outpouring of love and generosity that makes the work of RTF possible. From the many you will see on the following pages, and then the continuation in the next newsletter, Thank You and God Bless You!!!
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Turkey
As you may be seeing in the news, there are major difficulties (governmental obstacles) getting relief supplies into Turkey’s disaster zones. Some cargo has been shipped, but. (working with World Emergency Relief), we are staging more containers of cargo in Lodz, Poland that will be shipped from there once the importation of relief supplies are untangled
(Anything we cannot ship into Turkey soon will be available for Ukraine.)

Many earthquake refugees most are not receiving foods with protein, and we have been asked to help with ready-to-eat snacks. We have paid to have trail mix (almonds, walnuts & raisins) packaged in Turkey for distribution to those most impacted.

Each 200 gm bag costs us $1.50. The packaging plant bagged the trail mix specifically for us.

We are also exploring purchasing shelf-stable milk locally as soon as this week.

Stay tuned for photos and relief updates.

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Ukraine Relief

We continue to work with project partners to get more relief supplies to Ukrainian refugees in Poland and in Ukraine itself. Updates will follow soon.
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Burma - Refugee relief… The horror continues…
From our RTF project Coordinator in Thailand:
“Thanks for your prayers and support our mission trip to refugees relief to Myanmar and Thailand border.

Pastor Yawla purchasing and checking supplies ...

We purchased the supplies the day before and then we left from Chiang Mai (northern Thailand) at 5:00 AM and arrived in Mae Sa Raing at 10 AM,

The team left from Mae Sa Riang by 2 boats to the border and traveled for over 3 hours to get to the refugee camp (Mee Tak Ko) on the Burma side of the river. The villagers have to leave their place early in the morning at about 4am and walk 3 hours to the place where they can collect the supplies. Not easy, but they have little choice because they are desperate for food.

Pastor Wareechai delivering your help

From the villagers to the RTF team: “You have not forgotten us, without your help we will surely die.” Meanwhile, the clashes with the military, which have created this dire situation, continue....

A few of the people you are helping:
(Notice the “God bless you” in two of their comment to you below. Many of these people are Christian, many Buddhist. They are persecuted by the ruling military regime for being indigenous people and a potential threat to the dictatorship.)

“My name is Mr Jawtu, I am from Ban La Bo kee village. I am a farmer, I worked the whole year but not enough to eat. The plane came and dropped a bomb over our village and the fire burned our houses. We must leave our village at night. We couldn't take anything from home. We were afraid to go back to our village. We are very poor and have nothing to eat. We have no future at all. Please continue to help us. Thanks for your help.”

“My name is Nawshe. I am from Poo Moo Lu village. We are always watching because of fighting. Recently there has been fighting near our village and we have to run, finally, they came into our village and burned houses. We have [sic] no time to take anything from home, even our children are separated. We must run individually and we met each other again in the camp. Our life is very difficult. Thanks for your love. I pray God bless you.”

“My name is Nawbee. I am from Lor Ta Kee village. Unexpectedly, in the morning suddenly the fighting began not far from my village and only a few minutes later they came into our village. Our houses were gone because the fire burned down. We must go and run into the jungle without anything, only clothing we are wearing only. We don't want to go back to our village, there is no place to stay. Even our crops also have no harvest. We are hopeless. Please remember us in your prayers. God bless you all!”

And…
Deep inside the Burma border at a secret camp we (You!!!) are also helping with school supplies…

From our RTF coordinator:
“They can’t study in school because the Burma army constantly attack the village by plane. They have to live in the forest. Teacher is the school teacher for grade one to grade seven. They are in dire need of supplies. The teachers who teach the children are now all volunteer to the children”

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Meantime, on the other side of the world… Honduras
RTF is continuing helping a small orphanage in Honduras.

Ricardo, Jesica, and team with the children
This is a private orphanage that we have supported for many years. It is government sanctioned and they do get some help from the Government of Honduras, but not nearly enough! The orphanage currently cares for eleven children.

“Staff” is ladies form the neighborhood called Las Tias (The Aunts) who tend to the children day and night. The children go to public school in the mornings.

This year, two of the children turned 18; they are brothers, and they are supposed to leave the orphanage because they are of legal age, however, they have nowhere to go, so they are staying to help take care of others.

From Ricardo and Jesika - RTF Honduras country coordinators: “Let me tell you, they were very happy to see us again, and when we gave them the school supplies, rice and juices, their happiness was admirable, their eyes shone with joy and they kept saying ‘thank you, thank you very much to the Rescue Task Force’.”

For Alondra, the smallest of the group, it is her first time at school and she couldn't stop admiring her school supplies. This year the children are happy to return to their classrooms for the first time since the pandemic. They sent all of you blessings and thanks.”

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Cambodia:
Clean, Safe Water!!!

We were pleased to be asked to do a water filter distribution at a small church in up-country Cambodia. The church’s name: “House of Love”- and that it is!!!

“We bring you greeting from your many friends in the United States of America,
and this gift of clean water.”

You put the dirty water in the top and safe, clean water comes out the bottom!!!

No batteries, no moving parts to break and easy to clean and maintain.

The pastor showed me his Khmer (Language of Cambodia) Bible and I opened it to John 3:16. I took a picture of the verse to show you. My old eyes could not see it was so out of focus on my phone camera – but does not matter None of us can read it anyway – but we know what it says!

Mrs. Ann Seang Rong is widowed. She gets her water from a neighbor’s hand-pump about fifty yards away. She has a five-year-old daughter and supports herself and daughter by doing piece-work laundry.

Mrs. Krouy Pheap and her husband are rice share croppers and earn a little extra income by harvesting and selling vegetable seeds. (On the far right is the Church Pastor)

Thank You, Bodet, for coordinating another great RTF mission.

Another one of the church members is little Miss Rep Nitaage, age ten, born with severe birth defects.

More Wheelchairs:

Home

A real little sweetheart. She just kept laughing and giggling. Mom works in a near-by factory and so is able to be at home at nights. Grandma cares for Rep during the day

And

Mr. Tee sends his “Thank You” for the wheelchair…
Tee is only thirty-six but suffered a stroke about six months ago. He is partially paralyzed on his left side and some mobility is returning to his left leg. He was given pair of crutches but they just cannot work with his paralysis.

Before the stroke he supported his family as a sales rep for gasoline company. Now his wife and children are working their rice farm for some income.

His wife and their two children also send their: “Ah Khun” (Thank You)

And More…
We are not the only ones who give…

Mr. and Mrs. Taing have a medical supply store in Phnom Penh. They give us substantial discounts on team medical supplies and about 15% discount on the wheelchairs. Thank you!!!
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Dental Team!!!
How do you spell “Relief” ?... RTF!!!
Having been dependent on the generosity of other organizations for equipment, up until now the team of volunteer dentists, friends of Bodet’s from his church, have been limited to the service they can provide.

Your donations with a $2,000 special gift for the project, has enabled RTF to purchase
all of the equipment needed – and wanted by the team !!!

(Drum roll….)
Friends, your new RTF dental team has officially launched and has begun monthly day-clinics in rural areas! You can only imagine how much this helps!

Following below is your report of the February mission and March 19 mission is already set.

Thank You - from many!!!

The equipment went to work - after being prayed over for God’s blessings.

Portable Drill

Air Compressor

Sturdy tool boxes for moving the equipment over treacherous rough dirt roads to
these remote villages.

Your equipment at work….

Ms, San Sokhea, age thirty-six, came for fillings in her front ((( remove the word “of”))teeth. Her work is making charcoal for sale – burning (smoldering) logs and then breaking and bagging the charcoal chunks. This is hard work and for very little pay. Paid dental work is not something her and her compatriots can afford.

Mrs. kok Sokreth, 45. Works in a factory doing assembly work during the week. She has three children and her husband also makes and sells charcoal. She came to the clinic for a tooth extraction.

Bodet, RTF Cambodia Country Coordinator, and friend, Dr. Seng.
You have met the doctor and his family in previous newsletters.

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Coming Up Next Letter:

More Bikes – Changing Lives!!!
Another Bridge
Attention Bridge Builders (You!!!)… RTF’s newest bridge is just completed

And much more…

God Bless you richly for caring and for sharing your hard-earned dollars that make the work of RTF Possible over these many years.

As you can see, Small or Large… Every Donation Is Important

Please, as you pray for our America during these horrid times, also please be lifting up all of the RTF volunteers and volunteer country coordinators in prayer as they serve on the front lines – making the RTF projects happen!!!
Yours In Service,

Gary Steven,

Larry, Bob, Andrea and the RTF Team(s)
Gary cell (951) 595-1525 Messages Steven: (610) 642-3100
Direct Dial - Cambodia: 011 855 8787-5968

Rescue Task Force
27636 Ynez Road L-7 #357
Temecula, CA 92591
Phone (messages): (951) 595-1525 www.rescuetaskforce.org [email protected]

PS Your spirit of giving can continue for many years by simply remembering RTF when you write or next update your will. (Tax ID # / EIN 27-3504467)

And, when you do so, please let us know how you would like RTF to recognize you and your gift

02/10/2023

You survived the Turkey earthquake, But….

February 10, 2023

Dear Donors, Friends, and Supporters in so many ways,
Just imagine, you are a 76-year-old handicapped lady. You survived the earthquake, but your wheelchair is buried in the rubble… What do you do???

Rescue Task Force is working with World Emergency Relief, our project partner of so many years, in responding to the calls for help…

We have five semi-trucks loaded with relief supplies enroute from Poland to the disaster!!!

Trucks loaded with wheelchairs, walkers and crutches for the wounded and needing survivors.

We are also shipping requested: Winter clothing, kitchen supplies, hygiene kits, diapers (infant and adult), baby foods, warm bedding, folding beds, and a myriad of requested relief supplies (Full inventory list available.)

We have local volunteers and partner charities on the ground ready to do the distributions.

Everything is set

Almost...

This first effort is costing just over $14,000 to cover the over-land freight expenses of the five truckloads of precious cargo.

Special Thanks to those who have already sent donations for this effort!

But much more help is needed!!!

If we have not heard from you for lately PLEASE consider helping with this 9-1-1 response…

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And, the “routine” (although with RTF there seems to be no “normal”) work continues…

Coming Up Next Letter:
Bicycles – Changing young lives
Ukraine Relief
RTF’s new bridge in Cambodia
And continuing Burma refugee relief

God Bless you richly for caring and for sharing your hard-earned dollars that make the work of RTF Possible over these many years.

Small or Large… Every Donation Is Important!!!

Yours In Service,

Gary Steven,

Larry, Bob, Andrea and the RTF Team(s)
Gary cell (951) 595-1525 Messages Steven: (610) 642-3100
Direct Dial - Cambodia: 011 855 8787-5968

Rescue Task Force
27636 Ynez Road L-7 #357
Temecula, CA 92591
Phone (messages): (951) 595-1525 www.rescuetaskforce.org [email protected]

PS Your spirit of giving can continue for many years by simply remembering RTF when you write or next update your will. (Tax ID # / EIN 27-3504467)

And, when you do so, please let us know how you would like RTF to recognize you and your gift

01/27/2023

But… What If ???

January, 2023

(For the RTF newsletter with proper picture placement please see the website home page: www.rescuetaskforce.org)

Dear Donors, Friends, and Supporters in so many ways,

Thank You from so many, for making the following, and more, projects possible.

If you ever have any questions or comments about RTF and RTF projects PLEASE let us know – We would love to hear from you!!! Our contact information is at the end of the newsletter.

Burma
The Burmese Karen People, mostly Christian, in the villages of Laplador and Porkee, were bombed by the Burmese military - 300 survivors were driven into the jungle with just the clothes on their backs…

A Christian Pastor was among those killed in the attack

Photos sent to us by the Karen / Burmese resistance.
RTF answered the “9-1-1” call for help…

THIS IS RAPID RESPONSE (RTF’s forte): Supplies are purchased on the Thailand side of the border and then sent by boat upriver to the Burma side where our coordinator(s) have pre-arranged a rendezvous delivery point.

The team’s supply boats have to get in, get the cargo offloaded, and get out of there before Burmese foot patrols spot them. The refugee villagers need to swiftly cart the goods back into the semi-protective cover of the jungle and then, for hours, trek the cargo back to their hidden settlement.

Several missions ago our hired boat was shot up. Fortunately, it did not sink, and no-one was injured, but it was a close-call.

Rapid response by the villagers too as they must get the supplies off the shore and out of sight ASAP !

Everybody, down to the smallest, helps to move the supplies
Arriving at the village…

Thank You from many hurting lives – and hearts.

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Ukraine:

Our support efforts in and out of Ukraine continue, as we support Ukrainian refugees in Romania, Moldova, and Transnistria, as well as displaced persons in Ukraine itself. Your most recent efforts comprise a shipment of almost 10,000 fortified meals being delivered into Ukraine, where our project partners will distribute to the needy.

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On a cheerier note… In Cambodia

Water Filters Clean, Safe Water

Off-loading 40 water filter units –
Today 40 more families will be touched by you!!!

“We bring you greetings from your many friends in the
United States of America who send you this gift – the gift of clean water…”

Made here in Cambodia, you put the dirty water in the top and safe, clean water comes out the bottom. The easy to clean filter catches large particulates and colloidal silver mixed into the porous ceramic pot kills bacteria… DEAD!!! (Rated 99% effective by MIT!)

If you have ever had to buy your drinking water on about one dollar a day income, or have had to boil your water, and to boil the water you need to first harvest and chop the fire wood, you will understand the rapt attention…
The villagers were familiar with water filters, but until you came to this village, actually having one was beyond imagination.

Look at the intensity on these faces….

It will be a long way home, but it was worth the trip!

She collects rain water in this cement cistern. When there is no rain, the family’s water has to be gotten from a hand pumped well… with contaminated water. But not anymore!!!

Wheelchairs

Mrs. Hui Sae is 88 years old. Her family farms a small plot of land of rice. Bad hips and legs have not permitted her to get around for several years.

Bodet was translating her thanks to us and stumbled for a moment – He said the closest he could come to what she said in English would be…“Absolutely Delighted!!!”

Ah Khun! Ah Khun! (“Thank you! Thank you!”)

Mr. Chan, 47 years old, and a barber by trade, was in a vehicle accident six years ago that left him unable to walk. He really appreciates your wheelchair, but more so appreciates the relief it gives to his family with moving him about – they no longer have to leave him or else carry him!

Mr. Outh Lonh is 95!!! Very unusual here in Cambodia. As with all the folks who receive the wheelchairs, he is so appreciative of having some mobility. – He will have a hard time working the wheels with his hands,* but he has a loving family excited to get him out and about. The family farms a 4-acre rice paddy. He cannot work the fields anymore but can now go and see the planting and harvesting.

Cambodia Dental Team CORRECTION: RTF Cambodia Dental Team!!!

Dental assistance in most villages is extremely rare – but badly needed.

(Oh sure, Gary is no dentist. But he keeps a watchful eye on your beneficiaries.)

The team of volunteers has been limited to working out of an existing dental clinic quartered in a church – about 2 hours north of Phnom Penh, where they live and work. The church clinic has been most generous in sharing their resources, *but having to use borrowed tools and equipment has limited the scope of what the team can and wants to do…

[See caption last photo below below!!! Exciting news!!!]

Strategy meeting; The dentist and his family are members of the same church in Phnom Penh as Bodet – that is how we got acquainted and RTF found that they have been doing monthly volunteer field clinics for several years.

Bodet led the discussion and with startup funding the RTF dental team was born!

Our first mission will be on January 28.

A special donation enabled RTF to purchase $2,000 worth of tools: a portable drill, a dental chair and all the hand tools and equipment necessary to launch the team.

This gives the team mobility as they (now we!) are no longer dependent on the generosity of borrowed equipment in a borrowed church facility. Soon RTF dental will be operating country wide.

But… It costs about $600 per mission for the rented taxi-van to carry the equipment and team, fuel, anesthetics and antibiotics, and all of the disposables you see when you visit your hometown dentist (syringes, gauze, gloves, masks, drapes and the like).

When you and I get a toothache we head for the dentist, hopefully before the pain gets too bad.

But what if there is no dentist in your village, your community, or even the nearby town an hour or so away? And you have no money to get to a major city, and no money to pay for the help once you got there…??? That is the reality for many, many, many, poor rural villagers. The toothache worsens and infection / abscess sets in and the pain increases with no hope of it being any better tomorrow!

A dear friend, Dr. Larry Thomas, now passed away, was a surgeon at Loma Linda University Hospital in S. California, once told me that dental pain is one of the leading causes of su***de in the third-world countries!

Thank You RTF Donors and Supporters for now touching even more hurting hearts and bodies!!!

Far right: Mr. Seng Samphous, brother of Dr. Seng is an orthodontic tech – he makes teeth for the patients, Gary, Bodet – Cambodia country coordinator for all of our projects, Dr Seng Chandath DDS and wife, Orug Sreynanag, dental assistant. Plus their many team volunteers.

(Something I have always really appreciated about RTF is how it enables people to volunteer and serve – freely giving of themselves with their skills and labor – and with hard earned money as you do.)

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Coming Up Next Letter:
Bicycles – Changing young lives
Ukraine Relief
RTF’s new bridge in Cambodia
And continuing Burma refugee relief

God Bless you richly for caring and for sharing your hard-earned dollars that make the work of RTF Possible over these many years.

As you can see, Small or Large… Every Donation Is Important

Please, as you pray for our America during these horrid times, also please be lifting up all of the RTF volunteers and volunteer country coordinators in prayer as they serve on the front lines – making the RTF projects happen!!!
Yours In Service,

Gary Steven,

Larry, Bob, Andrea and the RTF Team(s)
Gary cell (951) 595-1525 Messages Steven: (610) 642-3100
Direct Dial - Cambodia: 011 855 8787-5968

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PS Your spirit of giving can continue for many years by simply remembering RTF when
you write or next update your will. (Tax ID # / EIN 27-3504467)
And, when you do so, please let us know how you would like RTF to recognize you and your gift

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