TEDxHumberCollege - Rahul Singh February 19, 2012

Favorite:

"Disaster relief after Haiti's 2009 earthquake."

Rahul Singh founded the David McAntony Gibson Foundation (GlobalMedic) in 1999 to honour the memory of his best friend who tragically lost his life. Singh personally led over 30 GlobalMedic missions around the world.

Singh has been a professional emergency worker since 1988. Singh created GlobalMedic's unique operational mandate of providing efficient and cost effective disaster relief in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe with professional emergency workers.

Singh received, the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce's 2006 Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Ontario Paramedic Association's Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2007, the Toronto Paramedic Association for Humanitarian Effort in 2005, and the William Allen Award from Toronto EMS in 2004. In 2010, Singh was on Time Magazine's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and received the Caldwell Partners award for the Top 40 Under 40 in Canada.

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