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🚛🤲🏻📦Дистрибуція гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у Сумській громаді.
📍 Станом на 4 травня 2026 року, Сумська громада та область продовжують перебувати під постійними атаками російських військ. Ворог використовує широкий арсенал озброєння, включаючи керовані авіабомби (КАБи), ударні дрони, артилерію та ракети.
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🚛🤲🏻📦 Distribution of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid in the Sumy community.
📍 As of May 4, 2026, the Sumy community and the region continue to be under constant attacks by russian forces. The enemy uses a wide range of weapons, including guided aerial bombs (KABs), strike drones, artillery, and missiles.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Суми
📖 Казка — це теж форма захисту. Вона огортає, як теплий плед, коли навколо холодно чи тривожно.
🐉📚 У селищі #Миролюбівка, Білозерської громади, Херсонської області діти отримали від команди GEM HGBF історію про дракона. І, можливо, кожен із них знайде в ній свого героя.
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📖 A fairy tale is also a form of protection. It wraps around you like a warm blanket when everything feels cold or uncertain.
🐉📚 In the village of Myroliubivka, Bilozerska community, Kherson region, children received a story about a dragon from the GEM HGBF team. And perhaps each of them will find their own hero in it.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть
🇺🇦📍Селища Миролюбівка, Молодецьке, Мирне та Паришеве, Херсонської області.
Дороги складні, але ще складніше — чекати без надії. 🚛📦🤲🏻Ми доїхали. І це вже означає багато. У кожному виданому сімейному наборі GEM HGBF — турбота, яка не зупинилася перед труднощами.
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🇺🇦📍 The villages of Myroliubivka, Molodetske, Myrne, and Parysheve, Kherson region. The roads are difficult, but even harder is waiting without hope. 🚛📦🤲🏻 We made it there — and that already means a lot. In every GEM HGBF family kit distributed, there is care that did not stop in the face of challenges.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Білозерськагромада
☝🏻❤️Ця історія не потрапить у новини. Тут не буде гучних заголовків. Не буде цифр, які вражають. Але вона важлива.
🚛🤲🏻📦 Бо у селищах Семененкове та Біляївка, Запорізької області, ще одна родина отримала сімейні набори GEM HGBF.
І ще одна. І ще. Саме з таких історій і складається справжня стійкість країни.
Не гучна. Але незламна.
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☝🏻❤️ This story won’t make the news. There will be no loud headlines. No numbers to impress. But it matters.
🚛🤲🏻📦 Because in the villages of Semenenkove and Biliaivka, Zaporizhzhia region, one more family received GEM HGBF family kits. And then one more. And then one more.
This is what real resilience is made of — not loud, but unbreakable.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Семененкове Біляївк
Вони приїхали без плану «далі». Але з вірою, що хтось підтримає. І нещодавно ця віра зустрілась із дією.
❤️📦🙏🏻 Ми передали гуманітарну допомогу GEM HGBF переселенцям із Запорізької області, селищ Таврійське, Юрківка та Любимівка.
Щоб у їхньому сьогодні було трохи більше спокою.
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They arrived without a plan for what comes next — but with faith that someone would support them. And recently, that faith met action.
❤️📦🙏🏻 We delivered GEM HGBF humanitarian aid to IDPs from the Zaporizhzhia region, from the settlements of Tavriiske, Yurkivka, and Liubymivka.
So that their today could hold a little more peace.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #Запорізькаобласть
❤️Гуманітарна допомога для українців — це завжди більше, ніж ресурси.
Це сигнал підтримки.
Це увага до тих, хто цього потребує.
Це спільна відповідальність.
🙏🏻💛📦 Саме такий сенс мають сімейні набори GEM HGBF, передані у Городню, Ільмівку та Володимирівку, Чернігівської області.
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❤️ Humanitarian aid for Ukrainians is always more than resources.
It is a signal of support.
It is attention to those who need it.
It is a shared responsibility.
🙏🏻💛📦 This is the meaning behind the GEM HGBF family kits delivered to Horodnia, Ilmivka, and Volodymyrivka in the Chernihiv region.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть #Ільмівка
Є речі, які повертають відчуття контролю. Не глобально, не назавжди, а на рівні тижня.
📦🚛🇺🇦 Волонтери GEM HGBF видали сімейні набори жителям Старого Білоуса, Чернігівської області.
І це означає: сьогодні можна менше хвилюватися про базове. Сьогодні можна більше думати про життя. Іноді саме з таких днів і складається відновлення.🙏🏻❤️🫂
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There are things that restore a sense of control — not globally, not forever, but on the level of a week.
📦🚛🇺🇦 GEM HGBF volunteers distributed family kits to residents of Staryi Bilous, Chernihiv region.
And that means: today, there is less to worry about when it comes to the basics. Today, there is more space to think about life. Sometimes, recovery begins with days like these. 🙏🏻❤️🫂
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть #СтарийБілоус
💧🚛🤲🏻Доставлення мінеральної води GEM HGBF у селищах #Придніпровське та Камянське, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровська області.
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💧🚛🤲🏻 Delivery of GEM HGBF mineral water to the villages of Prydniprovske and Kamianske, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
Війна не питає, коли приходити. А ми не питаємо, чи їхати.
🚛🫂📦Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сімейні набори у Новогригорівку та #Павлоград, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області.
Бо допомога — це не про зручність.
Це про необхідність.🙏🏻❤️🤝
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War doesn’t ask when to come. And we don’t ask whether to go.
🚛🫂📦 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits to Novohryhorivka and Pavlohrad, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
Because aid is not about convenience.
It is about necessity. 🙏🏻❤️🤝
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Новогригорівка
В умовах війни є багато причин зупинитися: небезпека, втома, невизначеність, але є причина рухатися далі: люди.
🚛🙏🏻📦 Саме тому команда GEM HGBF продовжує дистрибуцію сімейних наборів у Павлівській громаді, Запорізької області, яка перебуває під регулярними обстрілами.
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In times of war, there are many reasons to stop: danger, exhaustion, uncertainty. But there is one reason to keep going — people.
🚛🙏🏻📦 That is why the GEM HGBF team continues the distribution of family kits in the Pavlivka community, Zaporizhzhia region, which remains under regular shelling.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Павлівське #війнатриває
У час війни турбота — це дія.
📍Волонтери доставили до селищ #Топила та Мозолевське, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області гуманітарну допомогу від місії GEM HGBF:
💧5616 пляшок мінеральної води
За цими цифрами — стійкість громади. І велика спільна робота заради людей.
🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦Підтримка, яка має вагу.
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In times of war, care is action.
📍 Volunteers delivered humanitarian aid from the GEM HGBF mission to the villages of Topyla and Mozolevske, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region:
💧 5,616 bottles of mineral water
Behind these numbers is the resilience of the community — and a shared effort for the sake of people.
🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦 Support that truly matters.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
🚛Це маршрут, якого не мало б існувати.
Запоріжжя → Петропіль → зона ризику
❤️📦🫂Місія GEM HGBF доставляє сімейні набори туди, де небезпека — щоденна реальність.
Запорізька область сьогодні — це сотні атак щодня. І Петропіль — у цій точці напруги.
Але якщо є дорога — по ній їде допомога.
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🚛 This is a route that should not have to exist.
Zaporizhzhia → Petropil → risk zone
❤️📦🫂 The GEM HGBF mission delivers family kits to places where danger is a daily reality.
The Zaporizhzhia region today faces hundreds of attacks every day — and Petropil is at the center of that tension.
But if there is a road, aid will travel it.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Петропіль #війна
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
