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🙏🏻🚚🥹Коли волонтери приїжджають до громади, люди одразу збираються разом.
Бо знають — це допомога, на яку вони чекали.
🤲🏻📦Наша незмінна команда доставила продуктові набори GEM HGBF для мешканців Охтирської громади, Сумської області.
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🙏🏻🚚🥹 When volunteers arrive in a community, people gather together almost immediately.
Because they know — this is the help they have been waiting for.
🤲🏻📦 Our dedicated team delivered GEM HGBF family food kits to residents of the Okhtyrka community in the Sumy region.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Охтирськагромада
🫂🙏🏻Гуманітарна підтримка відіграє важливу роль для громад, що перебувають поруч із зоною бойових дій.
🚚🤲🏻📦 Волонтери GEM HGBF здійснили дистрибуцію сімейних наборів та мінеральної води для мешканців чотирьох селищ Олександрівської громади: Олександрівка, Привілля, Майдан та Прелесне, Краматорського району, Донецької області.
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🫂🙏🏻 Humanitarian support plays a vital role for communities located near the frontline.
🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF volunteers carried out the distribution of family kits and mineral water for residents of four villages of the Oleksandrivka community: Oleksandrivka, Pryvillia, Maidan, and Prelesne, in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region.
#Hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донецькаобласть #Донеччина #гуманітарнадопомога
Війна намагається зупинити життя.
📍Але у Шевченковому, Харківської області люди доводять протилежне. Тут працює інфраструктура. Відкриваються ринки. І люди підтримують одне одного.
🥹🫂📦Команда наших волонтерів доставила сімейні набори GEM HGBF для мешканців села.
🙏🏻У найскладніших умовах така підтримка має високе значення.
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War tries to stop life.
📍But in Shevchenkove, Kharkiv region, people prove the opposite. Infrastructure is working here. Markets are reopening. And people continue to support one another.
🥹🫂📦 Our team of volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the residents of the village.
🙏🏻 In the most difficult circumstances, this kind of support means a great deal.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Шевченкове
🇺🇦📍🚚Дорога до міста Марганець, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області — не з простих.
Місто регулярно обстрілюють артилерією та FPV-дронами.
🤲🏻💛📦Але саме тому наша місія продовжує доставляти сюди гуманітарну допомогу GEM HGBF, де війна відчувається щодня.
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🇺🇦📍🚚The road to the city of Marhanets, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, is not an easy one.
The city is regularly shelled with artillery and targeted by FPV drones.
🤲🏻💛📦 But that is exactly why our mission continues to deliver GEM HGBF humanitarian aid here — to a place where the war is felt every single day.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Марганець #Марганец #Дніпропетровщина
📍⚠️Прифронтове місто Нікополь
80+ ударів за останню добу.
Місто під постійним вогнем.
І попри це наші сміливі та відчайдушні волонтери продовжують їхати сюди.
📦🫂🙏🏻 Команда GEM доставила сімейні набори та мінеральну воду для місцевих родин.
Підтримка не зупиняється навіть там, де небезпечно.
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📍⚠️ Frontline city of Nikopol
80+ attacks in the past 24 hours.
A city under constant fire.
Yet despite this, our brave and determined volunteers continue to travel here.
📦🫂🙏🏻 The GEM team delivered family kits and mineral water to local families.
Support does not stop — even where it is dangerous.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Нікополь #гуманітарнадопомога #війнатриває
🥺📍🇺🇦Село Трифонівка на Херсонщині знає, що означає жити між страхом і надією.
Колись це було тихе аграрне село.
Потім — окупація. А після звільнення — ще одна реальність: заміновані поля та постійна небезпека.
🙏🏻🚚📦 Команда GEM HGBF доставила до Трифонівки сімейні продуктові набори, щоб підтримати родини, які продовжують жити та відбудовувати своє життя після окупації.
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🥺📍🇺🇦 The village of Tryfonivka in the Kherson region knows what it means to live between fear and hope. Once it was a quiet agricultural village. Then came occupation. And after liberation — another reality: mined fields and constant danger.
🙏🏻🚚📦 The GEM HGBF team delivered family food kits to Tryfonivka to support families who continue living there and rebuilding their lives after the occupation.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Трифонівка
🚚🤲🏻💛📦Видача гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у місті Носівка, Чернігівської області.
📌 Місто #Носівка періодично стає ціллю російських атак, зокрема із застосуванням безпілотників та ракет. Основні удари зазвичай спрямовані на логістичну та критичну інфраструктуру.
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🚚🤲🏻💛📦 Distribution of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid in the city of Nosivka, Chernihiv region.
📌 The city of Nosivka, periodically becomes a target of russian attacks, including the use of drones and missiles. Most strikes are usually directed at logistics and critical infrastructure.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівськаобласть #Чернігівщина
📌Мама складає документи в одну папку.
Дитина тримає улюблену іграшку.
На кухні — продуктовий набір, привезений волонтерами.
🇺🇦📍🚛Селища #Чаплине та #Дубовики, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області живе між «залишитись» і «виїхати».
Ми не можемо зупинити війну. Але можемо зробити так, щоб у ці дні в домі було що поставити на стіл.
🙏🏻 ❤️📦Сімейні набори GEM HGBF доставлено. Підтримка триває.
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📌A mother gathers documents into a single folder. A child holds their favorite toy.
On the kitchen table — a food box delivered by volunteers.
🇺🇦📍🚚The villages of Chaplyne and Dubovyky, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region, live between the choices of “stay” and “leave.”
We cannot stop the war. But we can make sure that in these days there is still something to put on the table.
🙏🏻❤️📦 GEM HGBF family boxes have been delivered. The support continues.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Синельниківськийрайон
🇺🇦📍Великописарівська громада, Сумської області — це сьогодні про ризик.
Про обовʼязкову евакуацію.
Про зруйновані домівки.
І про людей, які заслуговують на підтримку.
🚚 Ми доставили продуктові сімейні набори GEM HGBF. Підтримка триває завдяки тим, хто не лишається осторонь.
💛💙 Дякуємо кожному, хто стоїть поруч із нами.
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🇺🇦📍Velyka Pysarivka community, Sumy region today is about risk.
About mandatory evacuation.
About destroyed homes.
And about people who deserve support.
🚚 We delivered GEM HGBF family food boxes to residents of the community. This support continues thanks to those who refuse to stand aside.
💛💙 Thank you to everyone who stands with us.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть
📍🏥🪟12 листопада 2025 року ворожий обстріл пошкодив Інститут отоларингології ім. проф. О.С. Коломійченка НАМН України. Понад 300 вибитих вікон, холод у палатах, загроза зупинки критично важливих відділень.
Ми не могли стояти осторонь.
Разом із Howard G. Buffett Foundation наша команда Global Empowerment Mission оперативно відреагувала. За кілька тижнів замінили 328 віконних конструкцій площею понад 1000 м². Тепло повернулося до палат. Лікарі знову можуть зосередитися на головному – рятувати життя.
🙏🏻🫂Це наша місія: бути поруч, коли найважче. Діяти швидко. Відновлювати те, що зруйнувала війна.
Кожне встановлене вікно – це можливість для пацієнтів отримати допомогу. Це тепло для тих, хто лікує. Це наша відповідь на руйнування.
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📍🏥🪟 On November 12, 2025, enemy shelling damaged the O.S. Kolomiychenko Institute of Otolaryngology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine. More than 300 windows were shattered, hospital wards were left in the cold, and critical departments faced the risk of shutdown.
We could not stand aside.
Together with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Global Empowerment Mission team responded swiftly. Within just a few weeks, 328 window structures were replaced, covering over 1,000 square meters. Warmth returned to the wards. Doctors could once again focus on what matters most — saving lives.
🙏🏻🫂 This is our mission: to stand рядом when it is hardest. To act quickly. To restore what war has destroyed .
Each installed window is an opportunity for patients to receive care. It is warmth for those who heal. It is our response to destruction.
📸 🤲🏻📦Ділимося кадрами з нашої видачі сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у селищі Софіївка, Херсонської області.
📌 У січні 2026 року внаслідок атаки російського БпЛА безпосередньо у Софіївці загинула місцева жителька.
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📸 🤲🏻📦 We are sharing moments from our distribution of GEM HGBF family kits in the village of Sofiivka, Kherson region.
📌 In January 2026, as a result of a Russian UAV attack directly in Sofiivka, a local resident was killed.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Софіївка
Коли дім тремтить від вибухів, найцінніше — відчуття опори.
🇺🇦📍Юнаківська громада, Сумська область сьогодні — це про нестабільність, про зруйновані вікна, про валізи, що стоять напоготові. Але це також про людей, які тримаються.
🚚🤲🏻📦Ми доставили продуктові сімейні набори GEM HGBF тим, хто залишається або готується до евакуації. Бо турбота — це дія. І вона має бути вчасною.
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When a home trembles from explosions, the most precious thing is a sense of support.
🇺🇦📍 The Yunakivka community, Sumy region, today is about instability, shattered windows, and suitcases kept ready. But it is also about people who endure.
🚚🤲🏻📦 We delivered GEM HGBF family food kits to those who remain — and to those preparing for evacuation. Because care is action. And it must be timely.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Юнаківськагромада
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
