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🇺🇦🚛📦Глобальна Місія Розширення Прав та Можливостей за підтримки Фонду Говарда Дж. Баффетта доставила та провела видачу сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у селищі Борова, Харківської області.
Через постійну небезпеку в громаді проводиться евакуація, проте частина людей залишається попри щоденну загрозу.
📌Лише протягом останніх місяців зафіксовано численні випадки загибелі та поранення місцевих жителів різного віку.
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🇺🇦🚛📦 The Global Empowerment Mission, with the support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, delivered and distributed GEM HGBF family kits in the village of Borova, Kharkiv region.
Due to the constant danger, evacuation is ongoing in the community, yet some residents remain despite the daily threat.
📌 In recent months alone, there have been multiple reported cases of civilians of different ages killed and injured.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Борова
🚚🤲🏻📦📕Команда GEM HGBF прибула у Запоріжжя, щоб передати сімейні набори та дитячі книжки тим, хто раніше отримував допомогу вдома, а сьогодні — у статусі ВПО. Підтримка триває.
🇺🇦📍Раніше ці родини отримували нашу гуманітарну допомогу у своїх селищах, поки їх не було евакуйовано, через погіршення безпекової ситуації.
Запоріжжя стало новим прихистком для цих родин із прифронтових селищ Запорізької області — Новолоолександрівка, Веселянка та Григорівка.
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🚚🤲🏻📦📕 The GEM HGBF team arrived in Zaporizhzhia to deliver family kits and children’s books to those who once received aid at home and are now living as IDPs. The support continues.
🇺🇦📍 Previously, these families received our humanitarian assistance in their villages until they were evacuated due to the worsening security situation.
Zaporizhzhia has become a new place of refuge for families from frontline settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region — Novoolesandrivka, Veselianka, and Hryhorivka.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #Запоріжжя
🙏🏻🚛📦Доставлення сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у мікрорайон Варварівка у Миколаєві.
📌Мікрорайон неодноразово зазнавав російських обстрілів протягом повномасштабної війни, що спричиняло руйнування приватних будинків, інфраструктури та жертви серед цивільного населення.
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🙏🏻🚛📦 Delivery of GEM HGBF family kits to the Varvarivka neighborhood in Mykolaiv.
📌 This area has repeatedly come under russian shelling during the full-scale war, causing destruction of private homes, infrastructure, and civilian casualties.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Миколаїв #гуманітарнадопомога #війнатриває
🚚📦❤️GEM доставив та розповсюдив гуманітарну допомогу у селищах Мирове, Топила, Анастасівка та Весела Федорівка, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області. Люди були дуже вдячні GEM HGBF за надання необхідної для них допомоги.🙏🇺🇦
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🚚📦❤️GEM delivered and distributed humanitarian aid in the villages of Myrove, Topyla, Anastasivka and Vesela Fedorivka, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region. People were very thankful for GEM HGBF for supporting them with aid.🙏🇺🇦
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #допомогалюдям #українапонадусе💛💙 #Дніпропетровщина
🚚🤲🏻📕🐲Команда GEM доставила та передала дитячі книжки про Червоного Дракона Дулуха у селище #Донець, Харківської області.
У часи нестабільності доступ до дитячої літератури стає важливою частиною емоційної підтримки дітей.
🫂💛💙Ми продовжуємо бути поруч там, де це необхідно.
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🚚🤲🏻📕🐲 The GEM team delivered and distributed children’s books about the Red Dragon Dulukh to the village of Donets, Kharkiv region.
In times of instability, access to children’s literature becomes an important part of emotional support for kids.
🫂💛💙 We continue to be there where it’s needed most.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть
🇺🇦📍Це не просто маршрут. Це лінія життя - селище #Синельникове, Волноваського району, Донецької області. Там, де падають снаряди, ми привозимо стабільність. Гуманітарна допомога GEM HGBF — коли допомога має сенс. 🙏🏻❤️📦
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🇺🇦📍 This is not just a route. It is a lifeline — the settlement of Synelnykove, Volnovakha district, Donetsk region. Where shells are falling, we bring stability. GEM HGBF humanitarian aid — when help truly matters. 🙏🏻❤️📦
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть
🚚🤲🏻📦Доставлення сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у селище Малинівка, Харківської області.
В такі моменти, коли хочеться повернути час.
Щоб ці люди не мусили повертатися у свою реальність війни.🥺
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🚚🤲🏻📦 Delivery of GEM HGBF family kits to the village of Malynivka, Kharkiv region.
In moments like these, you wish you could turn back time — so these people wouldn’t have to return to the reality of war. 🥺
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Малинівка #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть
🚚🤲🏻📦📕🐉У Максимівку, Адріанівку та Миролюбівку, Запорізької області ми привезли сімейні набори GEM HGBF і казки про червоного дракона Дулуха.
🪄🙏🏻Поки дорослі думають, як вижити — діти просто хочуть казку на ніч. Ми привезли і необхідне, і важливе. Бо дитинство не можна поставити «на паузу».
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🚚🤲🏻📦📕🐉 We brought GEM HGBF family kits and fairy tales about the red dragon Dulukh to Maksymivka, Adrianivka, and Myroliubivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
🪄🙏🏻 While adults are thinking about how to survive, children just want a bedtime story. We delivered both the essential and the meaningful — because childhood cannot be put on pause.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Миролюбівка #Адріанівка
🥺Ми дивимось в очі людей — і не завжди знаходимо слова. Бо є біль, який не потребує пояснень. І є сила співчуття та турботи, яку неможливо описати.
🥹🙏🏻🫂Місія GEM HGBF просто стоїть поруч, протягуючи свою руку, у селищах Пришиб, Андріївка та Донець, Харківської області і цього іноді достатньо.
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🥺 We look into people’s eyes — and don’t always find the words. Because there is pain that needs no explanation. And there is a strength of compassion and care that cannot be described.
🥹🙏🏻🫂 The mission of GEM HGBF simply stands beside people, reaching out a hand in the villages of Pryshyb, Andriivka, and Donets in the Kharkiv region — and sometimes, that is enough.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #війнатриває
🚚🤲🏻📦 Гуманітарна допомога GEM HGBF дійшла до Нечаїнської територіальної громади, Миколаївської області — це не про виживання, це про життя, яке сильніше за війну.
💛💙Місцеві садять квіти біля розбитих будинків та щодня чекають волонтерів, як рідних.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF humanitarian aid has reached the Nechaiane territorial community in the Mykolaiv region — this is not about survival, it is about life that is stronger than war.
💛💙 Locals plant flowers near shattered homes and wait for volunteers each day as if they were family.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Миколаївщина #Миколаївськаобласть #війнатриввє
Війна змінює масштаби важливого. Те, що колись було звичайним — сьогодні рятує.
🚚🫂💧Чиста вода — серед найнеобхіднішого. Ми доставили гуманітарну допомогу GEM HGBF у селище Новопавлівка, Бериславського району, Херсонської області, щоб підтримати людей у щоденній боротьбі за нормальне життя.
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War reshapes what truly matters. What once seemed ordinary — now saves lives.
🚚🫂💧 Clean water is among the most essential. We delivered GEM HGBF humanitarian aid to the village of Novopavlivka, Beryslav district, Kherson region, to support people in their daily struggle for a normal life.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Новопавлівка
Війна розділяє, але допомога — об’єднує.
🚚🤲🏻📦 Наші волонтери GEM HGBF приїхала у Хотінську громаду, Сумської області не вперше. І знову переконались: навіть у найскладніших умовах люди залишаються сильними. Ми поруч, щоб ця сила не згасала.🫂💛💙
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War divides, but aid unites. 🚚🤲🏻📦 Our GEM HGBF volunteers have come to the Khotin community in the Sumy region not for the first time. And once again, we’ve seen that even in the most difficult conditions, people remain strong.
We are here, by your side, so that this strength does not fade. 🫂💛💙
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Хотінь
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
