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🇺🇦📍Селище Крутий Яр, Чорнобаївської громади Херсонської області тривалий час перебувало без електро- та водопостачання внаслідок обстрілів.
🚚📦Через пошкоджені дороги доставка гуманітарної допомоги та питної води в Крутий Яр часто ускладнена. Попри всі складнощі та небезпеку минулого тижня наша віддана команда доставила сюди мінеральну воду GEM HGBF.🤲🏻💧🥹
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🇺🇦📍 The village of Krutyi Yar, in the Chornobaivka community of the Kherson region, was without electricity and water supply for a long time due to shelling.
🚚📦 Because of damaged roads, delivering humanitarian aid and drinking water to Krutyi Yar is often difficult. Despite all the challenges and danger, last week our dedicated team delivered GEM HGBF mineral water here. 🤲🏻💧🥹
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #КрутийЯр
🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦Допомога — це маршрут.
📍Цього разу він пролягав через Червоногригорівку, Семенівку та Сергіївку Нікопольського району Дніпропетровської області.
🚚🤲🏻📦Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF для місцевих родин.
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🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦 Help is a route.
📍 This time it ran through Chervonohryhorivka, Semenivka, and Serhiivka in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
🚚🤲🏻📦 Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits for local families.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Дніпропетровщина #Червоногригорівка
🤲🏻📦🫂Велика видача гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у селищі Борозенське, Бериславського району Херсонської області для жителів селищ Нова Кубань, Стариця, Чарівне, Красносільське.
📌 Нагадаємо, ці села входять до Борозенської сільської територіальної громади Херсонської області. Ця територія зазнала значних руйнувань під час окупації та продовжує потерпати від російських обстрілів у 2024-2026 роках через близькість до лінії фронту
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🤲🏻📦🫂 A large distribution of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid took place in the village of Borozenske, Beryslav district, Kherson region, for residents of the villages Nova Kuban, Starytsia, Charivne, and Krasnosilske.
📌 These villages are part of the Borozenska rural territorial community of the Kherson region. The area suffered significant destruction during the occupation and continues to endure Russian shelling in 2024–2026 due to its proximity to the frontline.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаоласть #Борозенське
У маленьких селищах новини розлітаються швидко.
Але ще швидше люди помічають турботу.❤️🫂
🚚🤲🏻📦Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили близько 1500 сімейних продуктових наборів у селище Роздори, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області.
📌11 лютого 2026 року тут стався вибух і пожежа після удару безпілотника.
📌Минулого тижня тут зʼявилась інша новина: допомога приїхала.
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In small villages, news spreads quickly.
But people notice care even faster. ❤️🫂
🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered about 1,500 family food kits to the village of Rozdory, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
📌 On February 11, 2026, an explosion and fire occurred here after a drone strike.
📌 Last week, another kind of news appeared here: help had arrived.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Роздори
🙏🏻 Коли є з ким іти — дорога стає коротшою.
Щира подяка простору «Мелітополь Саме Тут. Дніпро» за партнерство та відкритість.
📍🚚📦Саме тут місія GEМ HGBF передала сімейні набори мешканцям Мелітопольської громади. Разом ми створюємо точки опори для людей, які цього найбільше потребують.
❤️ Дякуємо всім, хто робить цю роботу можливою.
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🙏🏻 When you have someone to walk with, the road becomes shorter.
Our sincere thanks to the space “Melitopol Same Tut. Dnipro” for their partnership and openness.
📍🚚📦 It was here that the GEM HGBF mission delivered family kits to residents of the Melitopol community. Together, we create points of support for people who need them most.
❤️ Thank you to everyone who makes this work possible.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #Мелітополь
🙏🏻❤️📦Жителі міста Нікополь та Марганець, Дніпропетровської області щиро дякують команді GEM HGBF за гуманітарну допомогу.
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🙏🏻❤️📦 Residents of the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region, sincerely thank the GEM HGBF team for the humanitarian aid.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Марганець #Нікополь #Дніпропетровщина
📌Березень 2026.
У громадах Бериславського району знову фіксують поранення цивільних. Саме тому кожна гуманітарна поїздка має значення.
🚚🤲🏻📦Цього разу наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF до сіл Брускінське та Стійке, Херсонської області.
📍Брускінське було звільнене у листопаді 2022 року після окупації, але руйнування і загрози залишаються.
📍У Стійкому ситуація теж непроста — багато родин живуть у постійній невизначеності.
📦 GEM-бокси — це підтримка, яка допомагає родинам триматися.
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📌 March 2026.
In the communities of the Beryslav district, injuries among civilians are being recorded again. That is why every humanitarian trip matters.
🚚🤲🏻📦 This time, our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the villages of Bruskynske and Stiike, Kherson region.
📍 Bruskynske was liberated in November 2022 after the occupation, but the destruction and threats remain.
📍 In Stiike, the situation is also difficult — many families live in constant uncertainty.
📦 GEM boxes are support that helps families hold on.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть
🚚🤲🏻💧Дистрибуція мінеральної води GEM HGBF у місті Марганець та у селищі Новоіванівка, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області.
📌 Марганець, прифронтове місто у Дніпропетровській області, щодня потерпає від наслідків російської агресії, що призвело до глибокої кризи з водопостачанням.
📌Після руйнування Каховського водосховища у 2023 році місто втратило основне джерело водопостачання, що зробило ситуацію критичною.
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🚚🤲🏻💧 Distribution of GEM HGBF mineral water in the city of Marhanets and the village of Novoivanivka, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
📌 Marhanets, a frontline city in the Dnipropetrovsk region, faces the daily consequences of Russian aggression, which has led to a severe water supply crisis.
📌 After the destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir in 2023, the city lost its main source of water supply, making the situation critical.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Марганець
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Коли читаєш зведення новин — це цифри. Коли приїжджаєш у ці селища — це люди.
📍Успенський старостинський округ, Сумської області. Конотопський район, який майже щодня згадують через обстріли: мінометів, артилерії, дронів.
Але за цими словами — життя.
🚚 📦🙏🏻Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сюди сімейні набори, бо навіть у найскладніших місцях життя має тривати.
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 When you read the news reports — they are numbers. When you arrive in these villages — they are people.
📍 Uspenka district, Sumy region. Konotop district, which is mentioned almost every day because of shelling — mortars, artillery, and drones. But behind these words — there is life.
🚚📦🙏🏻 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits here, because even in the most difficult places, life must go on.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Успенка
🙏🏻📦🫂Команда GEM продовжує надавати стабільну підтримку мешканцям Білозерки.
🇺🇦📍Білозерка, Херсонської області — селище над Дніпром, де тиша — це рідкість.
Поки артилерія нагадує про близькість фронту, люди продовжують жити.
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🙏🏻📦🫂 The GEM team continues to provide steady support to the residents of Bilozerka.
🇺🇦📍 Bilozerka, Kherson region — the village by the Dnipro River, where silence is rare.
While artillery reminds everyone of the proximity of the frontline, people continue to live their lives.
#hgbf#globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #херсонськаобласть #Білозерка
📦❤️🤲🏻Небайдужі та натхненні волонтери видали сімейні набори у Баницькому старостинському окрузі, Сумської області
📌 Село Баничі та навколишні населені пункти округу систематично потерпають від ударів артилерії, мінометів та авіації (КАБів).
📌 У березні минулого року було зафіксовано пряме влучання у Дім молитви в Баничах, що призвело до значних руйнувань будівлі.
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📦❤️🤲🏻 Caring and dedicated volunteers distributed family kits in the Banychi starosta district, Sumy region.
📌 The village of Banychi and the surrounding settlements of the district regularly suffer from artillery, mortar, and aerial strikes (guided bombs).
📌 In March of last year, a direct hit on the House of Prayer in Banychi was recorded, causing significant damage to the building.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Баничі
🚚🤲🏻📦Доставлення гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у селища Малі Феськи, Феськи, Високе та Чепелі, Харківської області.
📌 Загалом Золочівська громада та її села, включаючи вказані, живуть в умовах прифронтової зони, постійно страждаючи від FPV-дронів та артилерії. Проводяться евакуаційні заходи, але частина людей залишається.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 Delivery of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid to the villages of Mali Fesky, Fesky, Vysoke, and Chepeli in the Kharkiv region.
📌 Overall, the Zolochiv community and its villages, including those mentioned, are living in frontline conditions, constantly suffering from FPV drone and artillery attacks. Evacuation measures are being carried out, but some residents choose to remain.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Золочівськагромада
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
