Bucha Community Rebuilds

GEM in partnership with the Bucha City Council & Life Quality UA has fully activated its phase 2-3 programs. This program is aimed to bring hope back to many Bucha communities by starting light repairs on homes, apartment buildings, schools and hospitals. 

Each project is measured by a cost per human impact analysis. It also reverses a massive global refugee crisis, by enabling refugees to come back home. By returning home, they’re positively impacting their neighborhoods and local economy. 

Mr. Fedoruk credited the nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission, a disaster-relief nonprofit, with providing the much-needed assistance to get the town’s 15 schools rebuilt so that most could open on Sept. 1.

Signing of MOU with Bucha City Council

Kvitkova Street Building №33

This project is aimed to restore a residential building in the Vorzel village in the Bucha district. This apartment building housed 85 people which will all return home from their current refugee status in EU countries.

During the hostilities, this building was severely damaged. Numerous shells destroyed the façade, windows, doors and the entire roof collapsed.

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Cost per person to return home
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Ablogin House

This project is aimed to repair the Ablogin family residence which is located in the Moshchun village in the Bucha district.

In this village, almost 95% of the houses were damaged or destroyed. This brave family hid in a 6 sq ft boiler room for a week with their neighbors. Several shells hit the house damaging windows, doors, and the roof. The family was fired upon but survived.

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Cost per person to return home
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Bucha All Ages school №3

This project is aimed to repair Bucha School №3, located in the Horenka village of the Bucha district. During the hostilities, several shells hit the school, and the blast damaged the windows and the roof.

This school repair project give necessary education for over 200 children for fall 2022.

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Cost per student to return to school
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Bucha All Ages school №5

This project is aimed to repair Bucha School №5 located on Vokzalna Street, 104. During hostilities, several shells hit the roof of the building. As a result, windows, roof, doors and a heating system needs to be replaced.

This school repair project will give necessary education to over 1600 children for fall 2022. This school specializes in the studies of foreign languages.

Estimated Repair Costs
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Cost per student to return to school
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Bucha All Ages school №6

This project is aimed to repair Bucha School №6, located in Blystavytsia village, Soborna street 27. During the hostilities, several shells fell near the school, and the blast damaged the windows, the roof and heating system.

This school repair project give necessary education for over 200 children for fall 2022.

Estimated Repair Costs
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Cost per student to return to school
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Amur Apartments, building №11

This project is aimed at the restoration of an apartment building of the AMUR residential complex in Bucha, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Boulevard, building 11. There are 45 apartments and 180 residents in this building.

Main repair works for this object

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Kindergarten Limpopo

In total, there are 50-60 children in this kindergarten. During the fighting windows and the playground on the grounds were damaged.

Grand Bourget Residential Complex

This complex consists of 2 buildings. Building 1 has 565 apartments, and building 2 has 458 apartments, both totalling 2,750 occupants. Both require replacement of windows, roof repairs, facade work, and repair of the boiler room servicing the complex.

Vorzel First Aid Center

This new project will consist of repairs inside an outpatient clinic, as well as facade works, improvements of the grounds, and supplying furniture. Over 20 doctors work here, providing medical assistance to an 10,000 patients.

Multi-Hospital Projects

We have been on the ground in the affected areas since day one. Immediately we established a home-base and major distribution points to offer food, water, hygiene, and cleaning supplies. This initiative has since expanded to offer all types of aid, including pet food, new mattresses, baby needs, medical supplies, and more. By working with our long-standing partners, such as Good360, Amazon, and many others, we are able to offer large scale and quick relief to those affected. Additionally, we have also amassed aid from local community drives from all over the United States.

We have active distribution hubs around Fort Myers and Pine Island, working to assist as many as individuals as possible. Additionally, we work with a network of over 100 local volunteers who are able to personally deliver aid to those who are unable to make it to our distribution points.

As our response continues and expands, (based on needs), we will be actively involved in reconstruction and sustainable development efforts for the foreseeable future.

GEM is the official partner of Miami-Dade County and multiple municipalities. We are also working in tandem with the Florida Division of Emergency Management supporting local shelters.

GEM labour-funded home rebuilds

In partnership with Bucha City Council and Life Quality, GEM has provided labour for the rebuilding efforts of homes in the Bucha district. In August and September, 116 homes were repaired, 22 are currently in the process of being repaired, and 127 are having their needs assessed and construction efforts are to begin right away. These are all family homes that needed new roofing, windows, heating systems, and similar.

Vokzalna Street Project

Vokzalna Street is located in Bucha, Ukraine and was the location of the documented tragic ‘massacre’ in Bucha. The homes, buildings, and street itself were extremely damaged, and many lives were lost.

Thanks to the support of the Howard G. Buffet Foundation, GEM was able to begin a major project aimed on repairing the street, alongside its ‘Hope for Bucha’ program. At the end of October, construction began. The work consisted of major repairs on 10 damaged homes, complete rebuilds of 11 homes, and the repaving of the street, as well as other minor works. This work continues daily, and is also possible thanks to Life Quality and the Bucha City Council.