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🚚🤝🫂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
Гуманітарний фронт GEM HGBF не відступає! 🤝🫂🇺🇦
🚚💧🤲🏻Минулого тижня ми були у селищі #Роздори, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області. Завтра знову - там, де потрібна наша допомога.
🙏🏻Вдячні нашим хоробрим волонтерам за самовіддану працю!
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🤝🫂🇺🇦 The humanitarian front of GEM HGBF does not retreat!
🚚💧🤲🏻 Last week we were in the village of Rozdory, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region. And tomorrow, some village will once again be the place where our help is needed.
🙏🏻 We are grateful to our brave volunteers for their dedicated work!
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Синельниківськийрайон #Дніпропетровщина
🙏🏻🫂💛💙Підтримка, яка має значення.
У місті Сновськ наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF з найнеобхіднішими продуктами.
Гуманітарні місії залишаються важливими для громад, які продовжують жити та працювати під час війни. Ми вдячні партнерам і донорам, які допомагають робити такі поїздки можливими.
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🙏🏻🫂💛💙 Support that truly matters.
In the city of Snovsk, our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits with essential food supplies.
Humanitarian missions remain vital for communities that continue to live and work during the war. We are grateful to the partners and donors who help make these trips possible.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть #Сновськ
🚚🤲🏻💧Доставлення мінеральної води GEM HGBF у місто Марганець та у селище Чистопіль, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області.
📌 Проблема з водопостачанням стала частиною щоденної реальності. Часто з кранів тече технічна вода, непридатна для пиття, або її немає зовсім.
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🚚🤲🏻💧 Delivery of GEM HGBF mineral water to the city of Marhanets and the village of Chystopil, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
📌 Problems with water supply have become part of everyday reality. Often, only technical water flows from the taps, which is not suitable for drinking — or there is no water at all.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Марганець #Чистопіль #Дніпропетровщина
🚚📦🤲🏻 День гуманітарної підтримки у Зміївській громаді.
Наша команда видала сімейні набори GEM HGBF жителям міста #Зміїв та селища #Задонецьке на Харківщині.
Через близькість до лінії бойових дій громада регулярно стикається з загрозами повітряних атак.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙Та попри складні обставини люди приходять на видачі — спокійно, терпляче, з вірою, що підтримка продовжить приходити. І ми робимо все, щоб ця підтримка була поруч.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 The day of humanitarian support in the Zmiiv community. Our team distributed GEM HGBF family kits to residents of the city of Zmiiv and the village of Zadontsivske in the Kharkiv region.
Due to its proximity to the frontline, the community regularly faces the threat of air attacks.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙 Yet despite the difficult circumstances, people come to the distributions — calmly, patiently, with faith that support will continue to arrive. And we do everything we can to ensure that this support remains close.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина
❤️📦🫂Чуйна команда волонтерів доставила сімейні набори GEM HGBF у селища #Лукашево та Сонячне, Запорізької області.
У селах, які не раз ставали мішенню для ворожих дронів, кожен такий день — про турботу, єдність і силу громади. Найцінніше у таких днях — люди. Ті, хто приходить. І ті, хто допомагає.🙏🏻
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❤️📦🫂 A caring team of volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the villages of Lukasheve and Soniachne in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In villages that have repeatedly been targeted by enemy drones, each day like this is about care, unity, and the strength of community.
The most valuable part of days like these is people — those who come, and those who help. 🙏🏻
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть
🚚📦🤲🏻 Волонтери провели дистрибуцію сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у Роменській громаді. Це частина системної допомоги людям, які залишаються у регіонах поруч із зоною ризику. Підтримка, що допомагає вистояти.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙Попри постійні загрози атак безпілотників та ракетні удари по інфраструктурі Сумщини, громади продовжують жити. І потребують підтримки.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 Volunteers carried out the distribution of GEM HGBF family kits in the Romny community. This is part of ongoing, systematic support for people who remain in regions close to the risk zone. Support that helps them endure.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙 Despite the constant threats of drone attacks and missile strikes on the infrastructure of Sumy region, communities continue to live. And they need support.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Ромни
🚚📦🫂Здійснили чергову поїздку до Харківської області! Минулого тижня ми привезли сімейні набори GEM HGBF у селище Слобожанське.
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🚚📦🫂 Another trip to Kharkiv region completed!
Last week, we delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the village of Slobozhanske.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Слобожанське
🚚🤲🏻📦 Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF у незламне місто герой Херсон. Коли громада разом — вона сильніша за будь-які труднощі.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙У такі моменти видно, що таке справжня громада. Люди підказують одне одному, допомагають донести коробки,
чекають разом. Бо тут усі свої.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the unbreakable Hero City of Kherson. When a community stands together, it becomes stronger than any challenge.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙 In moments like these, you can see what a real community is. People help one another, carry the boxes together, and wait side by side — because here, everyone is their own.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #війнатриває #гуманітарнадопомога
❤️📦🫂 Доставлення сімейних наборів GEM HGBF вимушеним переселенцям з Петропавлівської громади у місті Харків.
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❤️📦🫂 Delivery of GEM HGBF family kits to internally displaced people from the Petropavlivka community in the city of Kharkiv.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харків #впо #переселенці
📦Кожен GEM бокс — це історія.
📌Жінка, яка чекає сина з фронту.
📌Дідусь, що не захотів виїжджати зі свого дому.
📌Мама, яка тримає дитину за руку.
🚚❤️📦У селищі Томаківка, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області наша надійна команда передала 1440 продуктових наборів GEM HGBF. 1440 родин. 1440 історій витримки.
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📦 Every GEM box is a story.
📌 A woman waiting for her son to return from the front.
📌 A grandfather who refused to leave his home.
📌 A mother holding her child’s hand.
🚚❤️📦 In the village of Tomakivka, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, our dedicated team delivered 1,440 GEM HGBF food kits. 1,440 families. 1,440 stories of resilience.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Томаківка #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Дніпропетровщина
🇺🇦📍Є місця, де тиша вже давно не означає спокій. Село Значкове на Запоріжжі знає, як звучить війна. Ракети. КАБи. Дрони. Але знає й інше, як люди збираються біля воріт, як вітаються, як діляться тим, що мають.
🚚💧🤲🏻 Наша натхненна команда привезла у громаду мінеральну воду GEM HGBF.
Бо іноді допомога — це не гучні слова.
Іноді допомога — це просто чиста вода.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙І нагадування: ви не самі.
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🇺🇦📍 There are places where silence no longer means peace. The village of Znachkove in the Zaporizhzhia region knows what war sounds like — missiles, guided aerial bombs, drones. But it also knows something else: how people gather by their gates, greet one another, and share what they have.
🚚💧🤲🏻 Our inspired team delivered GEM HGBF mineral water to the community. Because sometimes help is not about loud words.
Sometimes help is simply clean water.
🙏🏻🫂💛💙 And a reminder: you are not alone.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть #Значкове #Війнатриває
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
