Global Medic, the operational arm of the David McAntony Gibson Foundation (DMGF), a registered Canadian charity has launched a capacity building project in Indonesia . Global Medic's Rapid Response Team is comprised of professional rescuers including police officers, paramedics, and firefighters who volunteer their time to deploy o large scale disasters around the world.

Global Medic runs three specialty teams: a search and rescue unit to dig survivors out of the remains of collapsed structures; a water purification unit that provides clean drinking waters to civilians; and a medical unit that uses inflatable field hospitals to replace damaged medical infrastructure and treat civilian casualties.

The team has deployed 14 times in the past two years. Deployments have included earthquakes in Indonesia and Pakistan ; Typhoons in the Philippines ; Hurricanes in Grenada and Guatemala ; and the Tsunami in Sri Lanka .

Global Medic will help to improve civilian disaster response mechanisms in Indonesia by donating a large amount of disaster equipment and running a training mission. Indonesian based teams will be able to provide medical assistance and clean drinking water on a much larger scale after this mission.

Global Medic will be donating inflatable field hospitals; water purification units; water purification tablets; essential medicines; water dispensing bladders and holding tanks; medical equipment; and search and rescue gear. A training team will head over and teach Indonesian counterparts in late February 2007.

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