West africa, the organization builds teaching hospitals, tends to the sick and reforms entire health care systems. Today partners in health makes 800. Thousand home visits per year. It provides checkups to a million women around the world. The goal, making sure whether we live or die is not turn on how much we have. On todays bloomberg Big Decisions , dr. Paul farmer. Welcome to blue berke bates decisions welcome to bloomberg Big Decisions. You have a career dedicated to charity and medical science paired which came first . Dr. Farmer probably charity. When i was a kid i thought i wanted to be a doctor. We did not have doctors in the family and i had never been to a doctor but i had this idea, probably from television. The charity part was something i learned from my parents who had limited means at a large family, but were involved in charity. My father, particular, was interested in what, in that day, was called retarded people are retarded citizens. And he drags all of his kids into
Now, georgescu has a new mission. Having seen the worst socialism has to offer and what capitalism at its best can mean for those in need, hes urging corporations to return to pursuing the best for all their stakeholders shareholders, workers, customers and society at large. On todays big decisions, Peter Georgescu. Welcome to bloomberg big decisions. Great to have you here. Socialism these days. It strikes me you have a personal experience with socialism going way back in your childhood. Tell us about it. Peter well, i was prepared for socialism by being born in just as the Second World War started and i arrived in 1939 just as the war got to be big and real. I was born from romanian parents, both of them, one educated in london. My father became a petroleum engineer, came to romania, became general manager of the Largest Oil Field in romania which is owned by standard oil in new jersey. Exxon. The germans came into romania and the nazi supervising regime put him in jail. My father wo
We are directly across from mount vernon. Piscataway park is a National Park that was signed into legislation by john f. Kennedy in 1961. It came about because a congresswoman from ohio, Frances Payne bolton, a member of the mount vernon ladies association, bought a farm right here where we are standing. It was for sale in the 1950s. She bought it to prevent it from becoming developed, and then donated the land. The foundation helped lead a partnership of organizations on this area in preserving six miles of shoreline on the potomac river. Also involved was the Alice Ferguson foundation, the homeowners who live here in Piscataway Park, and individuals from the county. Piscataway park is nearly 5000 acres. The foundation stewards 200 acres of the park through cooperation with the National Park service. There is a section down the road called the creek site, which has a lovely boardwalk. There are some other entry points for Piscataway Park. We have a visitors center, five trails, a fish
We are directly across from mount vernon. Piscataway park is a National Park that was signed into legislation by john f. Kennedy in 1961. It came about because a congresswoman from ohio, Frances Payne bolton, a member of the mount vernon ladies association, bought a farm right here where we are standing. It was for sale in the 1950s. She bought it to prevent it from becoming developed, and then donated the land. The foundation helped lead a partnership of organizations on this area in preserving six miles of shoreline on the potomac river. Also involved was the Alice Ferguson foundation, the homeowners who live here in Piscataway Park, and individuals from the county. Piscataway park is nearly 5000 acres. The foundation stewards 200 acres of the park through cooperation with the National Park service. There is a section down the road called the creek site, which has a lovely boardwalk. There are some other entry points for Piscataway Park. We have a visitors center, five trails, a fish
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