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📍Херсонська громада. Дачні кооперативи.
Щоденні обстріли. FPV-дрони. Пожежі.
Відсутність електрики та газу.
☀️🚚📦У цих умовах команда GEM HGBF провела доставку сімейних наборів.
Попри розширену зону евакуації, частина мешканців залишається.
І кожен такий візит — це не просто гуманітарна місія. Це — підтримка життя там, де його намагаються знищити.
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📍 Kherson community. Dacha cooperatives.
Daily shelling. FPV drones. Fires.
No electricity or gas.
☀️🚚📦 Under these conditions, the GEM HGBF team delivered family aid packages.
Despite the expanded evacuation zone, some residents remain.
And each visit like this is not just a humanitarian mission — it is supporting life where someone is trying to destroy it.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #ХерсонцеУкраїна #волонтериУкраїни
🤝📦🫂Команда GEM HGBF доставила та провела роздачу гуманітарної допомоги у місті Дергачі, Харківської області.
📌 Ситуація в місті Дергачі та громаді залишається напруженою через постійні обстріли з боку російських військ. Місто регулярно стає ціллю для ударів дронами, артилерією та авіабомбами.
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🤝📦🫂 The GEM HGBF team delivered and distributed humanitarian aid in the city of Derhachi, Kharkiv region.
📌 The situation in the city of Derhachi and the surrounding community remains tense due to constant shelling by Russian forces. The city is regularly targeted by drones, artillery, and aerial bombs.
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Дергачі
📍Місія GEM HGBF доставила та роздала сімейні набори жителям міст Нікополь та Марганець та селищ Новокиївка, Добра Надія та Іллінка Дніпропетровської області. 🤝📦🙏🏻
📌Станом на 17 березня 2026 року ситуація в Нікопольському районі залишається вкрай напруженою через щоденні терористичні атаки російських військ з протилежного берега колишнього Каховського водосховища.
📌У 2026 році кількість атак та загиблих від FPV-дронів зросла вдвічі порівняно з минулим роком. Ворог використовує дрони-камікадзе та важку артилерію для ударів по житлових кварталах, лікарнях та ліцеях.
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📍 The GEM HGBF mission delivered and distributed family kits to residents of the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, as well as the villages of Novokyivka, Dobra Nadiia, and Illinka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. 🤝📦🙏🏻
📌 As of March 17, 2026, the situation in the Nikopol district remains extremely tense due to daily terrorist attacks by Russian forces from the opposite bank of the former Kakhovka Reservoir.
📌 In 2026, the number of attacks and casualties caused by FPV drones has doubled compared to last year. The enemy uses kamikaze drones and heavy artillery to strike residential areas, hospitals, and lyceums.
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #гуманітарнадопомога
📌Колись тут сміялись діти. Сьогодні — звуки дронів.
📌Колись були квіти біля дому. Сьогодні — вирви.
🙏🏻Але знаєте, що залишилось незмінним?
Люди.
📍Новопавлівка, Бериславський район Херсонська область не зникла. Вона тримається.
🚚🤲🏻💧Ми привезли мінеральну воду GEM HGBF — як маленьку частину великої підтримки.
Бо навіть у найтемніших місцях є те, що не зруйнувати — людську силу.
Залиш ❤️, якщо віриш у це.
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📌 Once, children laughed here. Today — the sound of drones.
📌 Once, there were flowers near the house. Today — craters.
🙏🏻 But do you know what has remained unchanged?
People.
📍 Novopavlivka, Beryslav district, Kherson region, has not disappeared. It is holding on.
🚚🤲🏻💧 We delivered GEM HGBF mineral water — a small part of a much bigger support.
Because even in the darkest places, there is something that cannot be destroyed — human strength.
Leave a ❤️ if you believe in this.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Новопавлівка
Теплі руки. Старенька сумка. Ключі, які все ще відкривають дім.📍Селище Холми, Чернігівської області складаються з таких деталей.
🤲🏻💛📦Сімейні набори GEM HGBF стають частиною цих історій — тихо, без зайвих слів.
Тут не питають «чому ми».
Тут питають «як триматися далі»
І знаходять відповідь — разом.
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Warm hands. An old bag. Keys that still open a home.
📍 The village of Kholmy, Chernihiv region, is made up of such details.
🤲🏻💛📦 GEM HGBF family kits become part of these stories — quietly, without extra words.
Here, people don’t ask “Why us?”
Here, they ask “How do we keep going?”
And they find the answer — together.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівськаобласть #Чернігівщина #Холми
🚚📦🤲🏻Місія GEM HGBF розповсюдила гуманітарну допомогу в Миколаївській громаді, Сумської області. 🙏🏻
📌 Ворожі сили намагаються розширити зону окупації, продовжуючи атакувати громади, включаючи Миколаївську.
Обстріли:
15 березня 2026 року: У Миколаївській громаді зафіксовані значні руйнування в житловому секторі. Пошкоджено щонайменше 14 приватних осель (сукупно з сусідніми Сумською та Степанівською громадами).
14 березня 2026 року: Внаслідок обстрілів у громаді пошкоджено приватний житловий будинок та автомобіль.
10 березня 2026 року: Зафіксовано влучання, що призвело до пошкодження ще одного приватного будинку.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 The GEM HGBF mission distributed humanitarian aid in the Mykolaivka community, Sumy region. 🙏🏻
📌 Enemy forces continue attempts to expand the occupation zone, attacking communities including Mykolaivka.
Shelling incidents:
• March 15, 2026: Significant damage to the residential sector was recorded in the Mykolaivka community. At least 14 private homes were damaged (including neighboring Sumy and Stepanivka communities).
• March 14, 2026: Shelling damaged a private residential house and a vehicle in the community.
• March 10, 2026: Another strike was recorded, which damaged an additional private home.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумскаобласть #війнатриває
🚚🤲🏻📦Дистрибуція наборів GEM HGBF у центрі підтримки ВПО Соледарської громади «Соледар: дорога до дому» у місті Київ.
💙 Соледар → Київ
Шлях вимушених переселенців. Шлях втрат і надій.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 Distribution of GEM HGBF kits at the support center for internally displaced people of the Soledar community “Soledar: Road to Home” in the city of Kyiv.
💙 Soledar → Kyiv
The path of internally displaced people.
A journey of loss and hope.
@o.kapitonenko #HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Впо #переселенці
🇺🇦📍Слов’янськ, Краматорського району,
Донецької області сьогодні — це місто сили.
Сили прокидатися після обстрілів.
Сили тримати дім.
Сили підтримувати сусідів.
🚚📦🤲🏻Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили 990 сімейних продуктових наборів.
І кожна коробка — про просту річ.
Ви не самі. 🫂💛💙
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🇺🇦📍 Sloviansk, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region, today is a city of strength.
The strength to wake up after shelling.
The strength to hold on to one’s home.
The strength to support neighbors.
🚚📦🤲🏻 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered 990 family food kits.
And every box carries a simple message:
You are not alone. 🫂💛💙
@mirnij7 @globalempowermentmission
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть #Словянськ
📌Іноді найважливіше — просто приїхати.
Приїхати у маленьке село. Постукати у ворота.
Передати коробку допомоги і сказати:
«Ми поруч».
📍📦🤲🏻Минулого четверга волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сімейні набори у Дмитрівку, Борисівку, Мирове, Топилу, Настасівку та Веселу Федорівку, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області.
🥹🫂💛💙І разом із допомогою привезли головне — людяність.
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📌 Sometimes the most important thing is simply to come.
To come to a small village. To knock on a gate.
To hand over a box of aid and say:
“We are here.”
📍📦🤲🏻 Last Thursday, GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits to Dmytrivka, Borysivka, Myrove, Topyla, Nastasivka, and Vesela Fedorivka in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
🥹🫂💛💙 And along with the aid, they brought the most important thing — humanity.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #волонтериУкраїни
🚚🤲🏻💧Видача мінеральної води GEM HGBF у селищах Мусіївка та Виводове, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області.
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🚚🤲🏻💧 Distribution of GEM HGBF mineral water in the villages of Musiivka and Vyvodove, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #волонтериУкраїни
Війна приносить багато складних днів.
Але є речі, які допомагають їх пережити.
🙏🏻Підтримка.
🙏🏻Людяність.
🙏🏻І просте «ми поруч».
📍🚚📦У Путивльській громаді, Сумської області волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сімейні набори для місцевих родин.
І разом із ними — трохи надії.
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War brings many difficult days.
But there are things that help people get through them.
🙏🏻 Support.
🙏🏻 Humanity.
🙏🏻 And a simple “we are here.”
📍🚚📦 In the Putyvl community, Sumy region, GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits for local families.
And along with them — a little hope.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Путивль
🫂🤲🏻📦Доставлення та видача сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у Святошинському районі міста Києва та у селищі Зазим’я для ВПО з окупованих та деокупованих територій Донецької, Запорізької, Херсонської, Луганської, Харківської та Сумської області де ведуться активні бойові дії.
🥺Тут було багато тихих розмов, люди питали одне одного, звідки вони. Хтось згадував свій дім. Хтось просто мовчки тримав коробку допомоги.
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🫂🤲🏻📦 Delivery and distribution of GEM HGBF family kits in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv and in the village of Zazymia for internally displaced people from the occupied and de-occupied territories of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions, where active hostilities continue.
🥺 There were many quiet conversations here. People asked each other where they were from.
Some remembered their homes.
Some simply held the box of aid in silence.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #переселенці #впо #гуманітарнадопомога
Our work throughout 2023-2026 is in full partnership with The Howard G Buffett Foundation
Summary Stats
What we've accomplished to date
GEM BStrong has provided significant relief aid to the following +2,000 cities, towns, and villages
(map does not include relocations)
Phase 1: Immeditate Disaster Relief
Since the beginning of the crisis, Global Empowerment Mission has established solutions, partnerships, and strategies to recognize and assist all those affected. Not only in Ukraine, but assistance has spread to those displaced across Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Moldova, Georgia, and beyond. GEM has continued adapting our responses to meet the evolving needs on the ground, providing continued large-scale humanitarian aid support.
Aid Distributions throughout the region
In March 2022, GEM activated partnerships with professional military NGO’s, such as Aerial Recovery Group, to be able to deliver aid inside Ukraine. During this period, getting aid inside Ukraine required highly advanced tactics and methods. Since then, GEM has implemented our own major infrastructure in-country. GEM has it’s own warehousing, trucking, logistics methods, production, and so on. To date, GEM has delivered thousands of trucks of aid throughout the region, with an emphasis on front line communities in the most at-risk oblasts. Hundreds of trucks are delivered monthly to these residents. Our aid distributions have adapted and scaled since March 2022; needs are routinely assessed to ensure that our Family Necessity Kits contain the most needed supplies.
Phase 2: The Gap Period
Due to the unique circumstances in Ukraine, it’s critical that aid continues to flow to the millions of in country displaced persons who are currently moving around from city to city to avoid bombings. This is called the gap period.
Smart Classes
Smart Classes are an education initiative to provide displaced children with classrooms and resources to continue their schooling. In partnership with SmartAid, classes have been established in Poland, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. Every classroom is equipped with all the technology needed for students to maintain their learning, while following the Ukrainian Ministry of Education’s curriculum.
Government Partnership
Since May 2022, GEM has established long-term memorandums of understanding with many regional governors and mayors throughout Ukraine. Within these agreements, GEM commits to supplying these regional government hubs with aid and winterization supplies. Government partnerships are in place with Bucha, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kviv regions.
Supporting newly liberated towns and cities
Recently many areas of Ukraine have been successfully liberated. Some of these villages, cities, and regions had been occupied for months on end, where access to proper resources were unavailable. Those in these regions have not seen outside assistance this entire time, and were at direct risk during the occupation period. Our GEM Ukraine team works closely with local government, partners, and intel to bring aid into these recently liberated areas within days, such as Kherson, Donetsk, Iziym, Avdiivka, and many more. Again, these individuals have not had any outside aid or assistance and this is the first relief they have had in months.
Winterization
With average temperatures of below 0 Celsius, the winter seasons in Ukraine have been a major concern for residents since the onset of the crisis, due to lack of electricity, secure housing, and other safety concerns. GEM has planned annually for the season, supplying these life-saving resources in the fall. This includes warm blankets and bedding, generators, small space heaters, fire starter kits, reliable clothing and accessories, and more. Additionally, our rebuilding efforts have been increasingly necessary during these times. Repairing broken windows and heating units before temperatures fall and weather changes, has been paramount to keeping Ukrainian residents safe and warm during the coldest months.
Invincibility
The Ukraine government & President’s office has created thousands of ‘Invincibility Points’ throughout the country, offering a space where locals can come get hot meals, access to device chargers, a warm space, supplies, and community support. GEM is presently supporting over 200 of these points, providing self-heating warm meals, blankets, generators, and other area-specific supplies. As more of these points are established, we will be able to assist many more locals routinely throughout Ukraine.
Phase 3: Sustainable Development
GEM, in partnership with Life Quality, has activated its Phase 3 rebuild programs in response to an overwhelming desire for Ukrainians to return back home to a sense a normalcy and hope for the future.
Vital Repairs
Our work in Ukraine has gone beyond humanitarian aid deliveries and immediate relief. Through our rebuilding efforts, GEM has successfully repaired and restored hundreds of structures. From medical centres and schools to homes and entire neighbourhoods, we have been committed to helping Ukrainian civilians restore normalcy in their communities. This has helped thousands of people return to safe housing, resume their education and learning, have access to healthcare and resources, and has overall supported revivals of local economies. Every repair project is carefully executed in lower risk areas, supported by thorough risk assessment measures, which ensures safety and long-term impact.
Front Line Support
In partnership with The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, major distributions have been able to occur along the active front lines in the most needed regions. Deliveries of Family Necessity Kits and critical supplies happen consistently, no matter the weather, terrain, or distance. Monthly, GEM sends hundreds of trucks to these areas.
Windows Program
Alongside the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, GEM has been actively working to repair thousands of windows that were destroyed due to the attacks. The windows are produced in-country, which supported these manufacturing facilities to have work during an uncertain time. By preforming these window repairs, thousands of families have been able to benefit by being able to stay in the comfort of their own home, without having to become displaced due to the freezing temperatures or discomfort.
Seed Program
GEM works all throughout Ukraine & it’s active front lines delivering a variety of different seeds to local farmers and landowners. This program has allowed for people to have access to fresh produce that they may not have been able to because of the active crisis. It also allows for people to gain income through selling the produce, therefore supporting themselves even further. To date, this program has distributed over 115 million seeds and has significantly made a difference in front line communities.
Community Rebuilds in Ukraine
Partners
