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Справжня сила — у турботі одне про одного.
🚚🤲🏻📦💧Волонтери GEM HGBF доставили мінеральну воду та сімейні набори до селища Біла Криниця, Бериславського району, Херсонської області.
📌Це селище було звільнене від російської окупації восени 2022 року. Але через близькість до лінії фронту Біла Криниця і сьогодні залишається під загрозою обстрілів та ударів БПЛА.
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True strength lies in caring for one another.
🚚🤲🏻📦💧 GEM HGBF volunteers delivered mineral water and family kits to the village of Bila Krynytsia, Beryslav district, Kherson region.
📌 This village was liberated from russian occupation in the fall of 2022. However, due to its proximity to the frontline, Bila Krynytsia still remains under the threat of shelling and drone attacks.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #БілаКриниця
❤️🤲🏻📦 Команда GEM HGBF здійснила доставку сімейних наборів до Роменської громади, Сумської області.
📌Ця територія залишається у зоні підвищеного ризику через регулярні російські обстріли із застосуванням дронів «Шахед», ракет та керованих авіабомб.
Унаслідок атак пошкоджуються житлові будинки та інфраструктура, є поранені серед цивільного населення.
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❤️🤲🏻📦 The GEM HGBF team delivered family kits to the Romny community in the Sumy region.
📌 This area remains in a high-risk zone due to regular russian attacks involving Shahed drones, missiles, and guided aerial bombs.
As a result of these strikes, residential buildings and infrastructure are damaged, and civilians have been injured.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Роменськагромада
🚚📦🤲🏻 Наші хоробрі волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF людям, що проживають у дачних кооперативах міста Херсон.
🙏🏻❤️Це була ще одна поїздка, сповнена щирих розмов, вдячних посмішок і віри у спільну силу.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 Our brave volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to people living in the dacha cooperatives of the city of Kherson.
🙏🏻❤️ It was another trip filled with sincere conversations, grateful smiles, and faith in our shared strength.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #гуманітарнадопомога #війнатриває
🙏🏻❤️🫂Благодійність — це не про великі слова. Це про тиху присутність поруч.
🤲🏻📦🚚 Саме з цією думкою наша команда волонтерів GEM HGBF приїхала до селища Томаківка, Нікопольського району Дніпропетровської області, щоб передати родинам сімейні набори.
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🙏🏻❤️🫂 Charity is not about big words. It is about a quiet presence beside those who need support.
🤲🏻📦🚚 With this in mind, our GEM HGBF volunteer team arrived in the village of Tomakivka, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, to deliver family kits to local families.
@globalempowermentmission
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #гуманітарнадопомога
🫂🇺🇦Місія GEM HGBF | Дистрибуція у Кривому Розі
У рамках нашої програми підтримки внутрішньо переміщених осіб команда GEM HGBF провела роздачу гуманітарних наборів у місті Кривий Ріг:
🔹 Центр підтримки ВПО «Пліч-о-пліч» для переселенців із Волноваського району
🔹 Центр підтримки ВПО «Я повернусь Бахмут» для переселенців із Бахмутської громади
❤️📦🤲🏻Сімейні набори GEM HGBF включають продукти харчування та предмети першої необхідності для забезпечення базових потреб родин у складних умовах вимушеного переселення.
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🫂🇺🇦 GEM HGBF Mission | Distribution in Kryvyi Rih
As part of our program supporting internally displaced persons, the GEM HGBF team carried out the distribution of humanitarian kits in the city of Kryvyi Rih:
🔹 “Plich-o-Plich” IDP Support Center for displaced people from the Volnovakha district
🔹 “I Will Return Bakhmut” IDP Support Center for displaced people from the Bakhmut community
❤️📦🤲🏻 GEM HGBF family kits include food supplies and essential items to help meet the basic needs of families facing the difficult circumstances of forced displacement.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Впо #переселенці #КривийРіг
📍 Село Шахтарське, Синельниківський район, Дніпропетровська область.
🚚🤲🏻📦13 лютого тут працювали волонтери GEM HGBF — доставили сімейні гуманітарні набори для місцевих родин.Але життя цього села сьогодні — це життя поруч із небезпекою.
📌9 лютого російські безпілотники атакували Шахтарське.
Постраждали дев’ятеро людей, серед них 13-річна дівчинка. Пошкоджені житлові будинки та гаражі.
📌15 березня ще одна атака пошкодила багатоповерхівку та магазин.
Саме тому кожна доставка гуманітарної допомоги тут — не просто підтримка.
Це частина великої мережі турботи, яка тримає людей.🫂💛💙
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📍 Shakhtarske village, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
🚚🤲🏻📦 On February 13, GEM HGBF volunteers worked here, delivering family humanitarian kits to local families.
But life in this village today means living side by side with danger.
📌 On February 9, Russian drones attacked Shakhtarske.
Nine people were injured, including a 13-year-old girl. Residential houses and garages were damaged.
📌 On March 15, another attack damaged an apartment building and a store.
That is why every humanitarian aid delivery here is not just support.
It is part of a larger network of care that helps people endure. 🫂💛💙
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #гуманітарнадопомога #волонтериУкраїни
🚚📦 Коли люди допомагають людям — народжується надія. Цього разу волонтери GEM HGBF доставили сімейні набори у місто Нікополь, а також у селища Лошкарівка, Преображенка, Китайгородка та Катьощине Нікопольського району Дніпропетровської області.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙Це підтримка для родин, які продовжують жити, працювати і піклуватися одне про одного. Кожен крок допомоги — це ще один доказ: ми разом.
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🚚📦 When people help people, hope is born.
This time, GEM HGBF volunteers delivered family kits to the city of Nikopol, as well as to the villages of Loshkarivka, Preobrazhenka, Kytaigorodka, and Katioshchyne in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙 This is support for families who continue to live, work, and care for one another. Every step of help is another reminder: we are in this together.
#hgbf #globaempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Нікополь
📍🇺🇦Селище Високе, Чернігівської області.
🚚🤲🏻📦Тут наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF для місцевих родин.
📌 Україна продовжує боротьбу. І в цій боротьбі важлива не лише оборона, а й підтримка людей.
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📍🇺🇦 The village of Vysoke, Chernihiv region.
🚚🤲🏻📦 Here our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to local families.
📌 Ukraine continues its struggle. And in this struggle, not only defense is important — support for people matters just as much.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть #Високе
🚚🙏🏻📦Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF у Буринську громаду.
📌 🇺🇦У Буринській громаді, Сумської області війна дивиться в очі щодня. Внаслідок обстрілів у громаді є загиблі та поранені серед цивільного населення. У травні 2025 року через атаку БпЛА загинув 60-річний чоловік, а в липні та вересні 2025 року фіксувалися випадки травмування мешканців. Та попри все життя тут не зупинилося.
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🚚🙏🏻📦 Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the Buryn community.
📌 🇺🇦 In the Buryn community, Sumy region, people live under war challenges every day. As a result of shelling, there have been civilians killed and injured in the community. In May 2025, a 60-year-old man was killed in a UAV attack, and in July and September 2025, cases of residents being injured were also recorded. Yet despite everything, life here has not stopped.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Буринь
🥺🙏🏻Вони пережили окупацію. Евакуацію. Невідомість. І вони — продовжують жити. Боротись. Вірити.
💛 Ми пишаємось кожною людиною, яку підтримуємо.
Нещодавно місія GEM HGBF доставила сімейні набори у Деснянський район Києва — для ВПО з Донецької, Запорізької, Херсонської, Луганської, Харківської та Сумської областей.
Гуманітарна допомога — це повага, визнання та підтримка.📦🫂🇺🇦
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🥺🙏🏻 They have survived occupation. Evacuation. Uncertainty. And they continue to live, fight, and believe.
💛 We are proud of every person we support.
Recently, the GEM HGBF mission delivered family kits to the Desnianskyi district of Kyiv for internally displaced people from Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions. Humanitarian aid is respect, recognition, and support. 📦🫂🇺🇦
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #війнатриває
🥺🫂Коли бачиш прифронтові села, розумієш одну річ. Допомога має приходити саме сюди.
🚚❤️📦 Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF до Розливу, Знамʼянки та Черешеньок у Білозерській громаді Херсонської області. Тут непросто але люди тримаються.
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🥺🫂 When you see frontline villages, you realize one thing: help must come here.
🚚❤️📦 Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to Rozlyv, Znamyanka, and Chereshenky in the Bilozerka community, Kherson region. Life here is not easy, but people are holding on.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Білозерськагромада
🚚🤝🫂Велика справа потребує спільних зусиль. Щира подяка команді центру підтримки ВПО «Мій Часів Яр у Києві» за координацію, відкритість і щиру турботу про своїх людей.
Саме завдяки таким центрам гуманітарна допомога GEM HGBF досягає тих, хто її найбільше потребує — швидко, з повагою та без зайвих бар’єрів.
📦Сімейні набори передано. Місія виконана. Але робота — продовжується.
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🚚🤝🫂 Great work requires joint effort.
Our sincere gratitude to the team of the support center for internally displaced persons “My Chasiv Yar in Kyiv” for their coordination, openness, and genuine care for their people.
It is thanks to centers like these that GEM HGBF humanitarian aid reaches those who need it most — quickly, respectfully, and without unnecessary barriers.
📦 Family kits delivered. Mission accomplished. But the work continues.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #МійЧасівЯруКиєві #війнатриває #Київ
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
