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🇺🇦📍🚚Доставлення гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у селище Біла Криниця, Бериславського району, Херсонської області.
📌Селище під час початку повномасштабного російського вторгнення було місцем запеклих боїв.
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🇺🇦📍🚚 GEM HGBF humanitarian aid delivery to the village of Bila Krynytsia, Beryslav district, Kherson region.
📌 At the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, the village became the site of fierce fighting.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть
🙏🏻🫂Мить, що змінює день
❤️📦🤲🏻Кожен сімейний GEM HGBF у селі Солоне, Запорізької області - це мить, яка робить день яскравішим.
Діти отримують подарунки, сім’ї – необхідні продукти, а ми – впевненість, що доброта завжди сильніша за страх. 💛🤲🏻
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🙏🏻🫂 The moment that changes the day
❤️📦🤲🏻 Each GEM HGBF family kit in the village of Solone, Zaporizhzhia region, is a moment that makes the day brighter.
Children receive gifts, families receive essential food, and we gain confidence that kindness is always stronger than fear. 💛🤲🏻
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Солоне
Коли дрони скидають вибухівку на будинки,
ми скидаємо в життя інше — підтримку.🙏🏻🫂
📍🏘️📦Хоробра команда GEM доставила сімейні набори GEM HGBF у дачні кооперативи Херсонської громади.
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When drones drop explosives on homes,
we drop something else into life — support. 🙏🏻🫂
📍🏘️📦 The brave GEM team delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the dacha cooperatives of Kherson community.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #гуманітарнадопомога #волонтериУкраїни
🤲🏻🛍️🎁 У маленьких долонях — подарунки GEM HGBF. В очах — надія. За плечима — дорога з Енергодару.
🙏🏻❤️Минулого тижня, у Запоріжжі, разом із нашими друзями Індією @indiahicksstyle та Конрадом @conradflintwood ми створили день, який вони запам’ятають надовго.
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🤲🏻🛍️🎁 In small hands — GEM HGBF gifts. In their eyes — hope. Behind them — a long road from Enerhodar.
🙏🏻❤️ Last week in Zaporizhzhia, together with our friends India and Conrad, we created a day they will remember for a long time.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Запоріжжя #Енергодар #дітивійни
🚚🤲🏻📦 Місія GEM HGBF у селищах #Новоіванівка, #Високе та #Чистопіль, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області. Бо людяність не має кордонів.
🙏🏻❤️Дякуємо кожному, хто підтримує нашу місію. Дякуємо тим, хто вірить у добро. У єдності наша сила.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF mission in the villages of Novoivanivka, Vysoke, and Chystopil,
Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
Because humanity knows no borders.
🙏🏻❤️ Thank you to everyone who supports our mission.
Thank you to those who believe in goodness.
In unity, we are strong.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission
Між вибухами — тиша. У тиші — надія.
Тиша тут не порожня, вона наповнена очікуванням.
📍Селище Михайло-Лукашеве, Запорізької області
📦 600 GEM-боксів
🙏🏻❤️🤲🏻Люди не питали, що всередині. Вони дякували за те, що хтось приїхав.
З Індією Хікс @indiahicksstyle та Конрадом Флінтвудом @conradflintwood ми привезли знак: ваше життя важливе.🫂💛💙
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Between explosions — there is silence. And in that silence — hope.
The silence here is not empty; it is filled with waiting.
📍 Mykhailo-Lukasheve, Zaporizhzhia region
📦 600 GEM boxes
🙏🏻❤️🤲🏻 People didn’t ask what was inside.
They thanked us simply for coming.
Together with India Hicks and Conrad Flintwood,
we brought a sign: your life matters. 🫂💛💙
#HGBF #GLOBALEMPOWERMENTMISSION #IndiaHicks #humanitarianaid #standwithukraine🇺🇦
🙏🏻За кожною цифрою поранених — ім’я.
🙏🏻За кожним зруйнованим будинком — родина.
🙏🏻За кожним нашим приїздом — віра.
📍Селище Молодіжне, Херсонської області
📦 Сімейні набори GEM HGBF - доставлені
📌Регулярні обстріли: Селище, що знаходиться поруч із Херсоном, постійно атакують російські війська. Вони використовують артилерію та безпілотники.
📌Цивільні жертви: У серпні 2025 року було поранено 16-річного хлопця та 59-річного чоловіка, а у вересні загинув 60-річний місцевий житель.
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🙏 Behind every number of the wounded — there is a name.
🙏 Behind every destroyed home — there is a family.
🙏 Behind every time we arrive — there is faith.
📍 The village of Molodizhne, Kherson region
📦 GEM HGBF family kits — delivered
📌 Regular shelling:
The village, located near Kherson, is under constant attack by Russian forces using artillery and drones.
📌 Civilian casualties:
In August 2025, a 16-year-old boy and a 59-year-old man were injured.
In September, a 60-year-old local resident was killed.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Молодіжне #гуманітарнадопомога
📍Місто Словʼянськ та селища #Новополтавка та #Новоолександрівка, Донецької області
📦 Сімейні набори GEM HGBF
🚚Волонтери, які не бояться дороги
Разом — сильніші за страх
🥺🫂Ми не можемо обійняти кожного. Але можемо передати тепло через справи.
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📍The city of Sloviansk and the villages of Novopoltavka and Novooleksandrivka, Donetsk region
📦 GEM HGBF family kits
🚚 Volunteers who are not afraid of the road
Together — stronger than fear.
🥺🫂 We may not be able to hug everyone, but we can pass on warmth through our actions.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина
Між черговим «ще раз обстріляли» і тихим «дякую, що приїхали» — стоять наші волонтери.
📍🫂🇺🇦Селище Білозерка, Херсонської області. Сімейні набори GEM HGBF. Присутність, яка рятує.
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Between another “they shelled us again” and the quiet “thank you for coming,” there stand our volunteers.
📍🫂🇺🇦 Bilozerka village, Kherson region. The GEM HGBF family kits. A presence that saves.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть Білозерка
🚚📦🤲🏻Кожна дорога — це ризик. Кожна зупинка — це чиєсь «дякую». Команда GEM HGBF доставила гуманітарну допомогу у селища #Приміське та #Кислучувате, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області.
🫂❤️Місія GEM HGBF — з Україною. З людьми.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 Every road is a risk. Every stop is someone’s “thank you.”
The GEM HGBF team delivered humanitarian aid to the villages of Prymis’ke and Kysluchuvate, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
🫂❤️ The GEM HGBF mission stand with Ukraine. With people.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровськаобласть
🙏🏻Коли розмовляєш з людьми, які втратили дім, розумієш: найважливіше — це відчуття, що про тебе пам’ятають.
❤️📦🤲🏻Ми передали сімейні набори GEM HGBF внутрішньо переміщеним особам у Довжанській, Горінчівській, Кирицківській та Білківській громадах, Закарпатської області. Бачили вдячність у очах, чули щирі «дякую», обіймали тих, хто так потребував підтримки.
Це те, заради чого ми працюємо. Це те, що надихає нас не зупинятися.
Дякуємо кожному небайдужому! 🫂💛💙
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🙏🏻 When you talk to people who have lost their homes, you realize that the most important thing is the feeling that you are remembered.
❤️📦🤲🏻 We delivered GEM HGBF family kits to internally displaced people in the Dovzhanska, Horinchivska, Kyrytskivska, and Bilkivska communities of Zakarpattia region.
We saw gratitude in their eyes, heard sincere “thank yous,” and hugged those who truly needed support.
This is why we do what we do.
This is what inspires us to keep going.
Thank you to everyone who cares! 🫂💛💙
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #Закарпаття
📍 Краснопільська громада, Сумщина
Всього кілька кілометрів — і кордон з країною, що щодня несе смерть.
Тут не стихають обстріли. Тут не мовчить страх. Але тут є люди, які тримаються.
🚚📦🤲🏻 Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF туди, де кожен день починається з невідомості. Бо коли світ темніє — хтось має запалити світло.
📌 У ніч на 11 лютого внаслідок атаки ворожого безпілотника на автомобіль загинув 61-річний чоловік.
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📍 Krasnopillia community, Sumy region
Just a few kilometers away is the border with a country that brings death every day.
Here, the shelling never stops. Fear never falls silent. Yet the people here keep standing.
🚚📦🤲🏻 Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to a place where every day begins with uncertainty.
Because when the world grows dark — someone must light the way.
📌 On the night of February 11, a 61-year-old man was killed when an enemy drone struck a vehicle.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Краснопілля
Our work throughout 2023-2025 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: Disaster Relief
We established solutions, partnerships and strategies to recognize and assist all those affected, not only in Ukraine, but those displaced in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Moldova, Georgia, and beyond.
Aid Distributions throughout the region
In March 2022, GEM activated its partnership with professional military NGOs such as Arial Recovery Group and many others. During this period, getting aid inside Ukraine required highly advanced tactics and methods. Since then, GEM has now established partnerships with over 150 vetted Ukrainian and European NGOs. To date, we have sent over 1,744 trucks into the region spanning 983 towns and cities. GEM currently delivers over 200 truckloads of aid to the front-line communities every month, supporting hundreds of thousands of people.
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 approaching winter has been a concern for the last few months. GEM was able to plan accordingly for this cold weather and has been supplying life-saving aid beforehand. This includes thousands of warm blankets and bedding, generators, small space heaters, fire starter kits, and more. Additionally, our rebuilding efforts were extra necessary in order to quickly repair broken windows and heating units before temperatures dropped and rain and snow fell.
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
These repairs include supplying communities with sustenance supplies until they are fully back up and running. During this phase, we have committed to rebuilding and light repair work on hundreds of homes, apartment buildings, schools, medical centers, and more. These projects have allowed for hundreds of people to return to their homes, thousands of students to return to school, and for the local economy to be refreshed. All rebuild work is performed in low-risk areas where critical risk assessment measures have been taken.
Front Line Support
In partnership with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, major distributions along the active front lines have been taking place in the most needed areas. These communities are the hardest to reach and can be without support for months on end. We have been able to supply dozens of villages with Family Necessity Kits, generators, blankets, and more. We have been able to supply hundreds of these communities with Family Necessity Kits, generators, blankets, mattresses, and more. We are presently sending over 200 trucks per month to these regions.
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.
Community Rebuilds in Ukraine
Partners
