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🥺🙏🏻🇺🇦Селище Новорайськ, Бериславського району, Херсонської області тримається.
Кожен день тут — це вибір залишатися під смертельною небезпекою, працювати, допомагати один одному.
🚚🤲🏻📦Хоробрі волонтери GEM HGBF передали сімейні набори жителям селища, яке перебуває під постійними атаками.
І коли дивишся в очі людям тут — розумієш:
сила України саме в таких громадах.
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🥺🙏🏻🇺🇦 The village of Novoraisk, Beryslav district, Kherson region, continues to hold on.
Every day here is a choice — to stay despite deadly danger, to work, and to help one another.
🚚🤲🏻📦 Brave GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits to residents of the village, which remains under constant attacks.
And when you look into the eyes of the people here, you understand: the strength of Ukraine lies in communities like these.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Новорайськ #Херсонськаобласть
🙏🏻Війна змінює життя. Людяність — рятує.
📍У селищі Плиски, Чернігівської області ми зустріли людей, які пережили тривоги, небезпеку й довгі місяці невизначеності.
❤️📦🤲🏻Минулого четверга вони отримали сімейні набори GEM HGBF — підтримку, яка допомагає вистояти у складний час.
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🙏🏻 War changes lives. Humanity saves them.
📍 In the village of Plyska, Chernihiv region, we met people who have lived through air raid alarms, danger, and long months of uncertainty.
❤️📦🤲🏻 Last Thursday, they received GEM HGBF family kits — support that helps them endure during difficult times.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть #Плиски
🚚🤲🏻📦Команда GEM HGBF — у Краснопільській громаді, Сумської області.
🫂💛💙Ми не обіцяємо легкого завтра. Але обіцяємо бути поруч сьогодні.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 The GEM HGBF team is in the Krasnopillia community, Sumy region.
🫂💛💙 We do not promise an easy tomorrow. But we promise to be here today.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Краснопілля
Під час війни, люди втрачають відчуття стабільності. Але навіть маленькі речі можуть повернути трохи спокою. Наприклад, коробка з продуктами для родини.🫂❤️
🚚🤲🏻📦Видача гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у місті Словʼянськ, Краматорського району, Донецької області.
Іноді підтримка виглядає дуже просто.
Але її значення відчувається набагато глибше.
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During war, people lose their sense of stability. But even small things can bring back a little peace. For example, a box of food for a family. 🫂❤️
🚚🤲🏻📦 Distribution of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid in the city of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region.
Sometimes support looks very simple. But its meaning is felt much deeper.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть #словянськ
GEM HGBF windows program update 🇺🇦
📍Poltava region:
- Poltava, Shelter 696 panels
📍Kyiv region:
- Kyiv, Shelter 127 panels
- Kovalyn, Educational institution 211 panels
- Bila Tserkva, Shelter 176 panels
- Kyiv, Educational institution 535 panels
- Kyiv, Boryspilska, Educational institution 620 panels
- Kyiv, Shelter 281 panels
📍Sumy region:
- Konotop, Educational institution 114 panels
- Konotop, Educational institution 96 panels
📍Ivano-Frankivsk region:
- Ivano-Frankivsk, Educational institution 160 panels
📍Zaporizhia region:
- Zaporizhia, Apartment building 285 panels
- Zaporizhia, Apartment building 17 panels
📍Kharkiv region:
- Balakliya, Educational institution
990 panels
- Kharkiv, Educational institution 388 panels
- Lozova, Educational institution 684 panels
📍Kirovohrad region:
- Svitlovodsk, Educational institution 34 panels
📍Chernihiv region:
- Novgorod-Siverskyi, Social infrastructure facility 106 panels
📍Dnipropetrovsk region:
- Dnipro, Shelter 120 panels
- Dnipro, Shelter 346 panels
- Nikopol, Medical institution 141 panels
📍Mykolaiv region:
- Mykolaiv, Social infrastructure facility 40 panels
📍Cherkasy region:
- Kaniv, Educational institution 373 panels
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🚚🤲🏻📦Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сімейні набори у селище Новопавлівка, Бериславського району, Херсонської області.
🫂💛💙Іноді найсильніші люди — ті, хто просто продовжує жити. І ми робимо все, щоб підтримати їх у цьому.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits to the village of Novopavlivka, Beryslav district, Kherson region.
🫂💛💙 Sometimes the strongest people are those who simply continue to live. And we do everything we can to support them in this.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Новопавлівка
🇺🇦📍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
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
