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📦 1440 сімейних наборів GEM HGBF
🚚 1 локація
📍селище Тернівка, Дніпропетровська область
🤲🏻 Сотні людей, яким потрібна підтримка
За кожною цифрою — люди.
За кожною доставкою — команда, яка вірить у людяність навіть у найтемніші часи.
Ми працюємо далі.🙏🏻❤️🫂
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📦 1,440 GEM HGBF family kits
🚚 1 location
📍 Ternivka village, Dnipropetrovsk region
🤲🏻 Hundreds of people in need of support
Behind every number, there are people.
Behind every delivery, there is a team that believes in humanity even in the darkest times.
We keep going. 🙏🏻❤️🫂
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Тернівка
🙏🏻 Звіт з Горінчівської громади
🚚🤲🏻📦 Успішно виконано дистрибуцію сімейних наборів GEM HGBF для вимушених переселенців у Хустському районі Закарпатської області! Наші волонтери попрацювали на відмінно, забезпечивши родини необхідними продуктовими наборами.
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🙏🏻 Report from the Horinchivska community
🚚🤲🏻📦 The distribution of GEM HGBF family kits for internally displaced families in the Khust district of Zakarpattia region has been successfully completed! Our volunteers did an outstanding job, ensuring families received essential food supplies.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #Горінчево
❤️📦🤲🏻Важлива місія продовжується! Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF у Шалигинську громаду, Сумської області. Дякуємо, що разом ми робимо світ яскравішим!
📌 Шалигинська громада постійно потерпає від російської агресії через прикордонне розташування. З 6 населених пунктів жителі виїхали, 2 села знаходяться під постійною евакуацією. Громада демонструє стійкість попри значні руйнування та постійну небезпеку.
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❤️📦🤲🏻 The important mission continues! Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family kits to the Shalyhyne community in Sumy region. Thank you for making the world brighter together with us!
📌 The Shalyhyne community continues to suffer from Russian aggression due to its border location. Residents have evacuated from 6 settlements, and 2 villages remain under constant evacuation. Despite significant destruction and ongoing danger, the community demonstrates remarkable resilience.
#HGBF#globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Шалигине
Роздача GEM HGBF мінеральної води у місті #Прилуки, Чернігівської області 🚛💦🙏🏻
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GEM HGBF mineral water distributed in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region.🚛💦 🙏🏻
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть
🥺Луганщина тримається. Навіть у Києві.
🙏🏻🚚📦 Місія GEM HGBF здійснила дистрибуцію сімейних наборів у центрі підтримки ВПО Нижньоодуванської громади Луганської області «Луганщина моя»
📌Луганщина — перебуває під окупацією РФ з 2014 року, а після повномасштабного вторгнення 2022-го область стала зоною активних боїв.
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🥺 Luhansk region endures. Even in Kyiv.
🙏🏻🚚📦 The GEM HGBF mission carried out a distribution of family kits at the IDP support center of the Nyzhnooduvanska community of Luhansk region, “Luhanshchyna Moya,” in Kyiv.
📌 Luhansk Oblast has been under russian occupation since 2014, and following the full-scale invasion in 2022, the region became an active combat zone.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Луганщинамоя #впо #переселенці
🚚🤲🏻📦 Місія GEM HGBF доставила та роздала сімейні набори та мінеральну воду жителям міста Нікополь, Дніпропетровської області.
📌Нікополь залишається під постійними обстрілами РФ, будучи прифронтовим містом через близькість до окупованого Енергодара. Місто щоденно зазнає ударів артилерії, БпЛА та авіабомб, що спричиняє руйнування житлових будинків, інфраструктури та жертви серед цивільних. Ситуація залишається вкрай напруженою та небезпечною.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 The GEM HGBF mission delivered and distributed family kits and mineral water to residents of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.
📌 Nikopol remains under constant shelling by Russian forces, as it is a frontline city due to its proximity to the occupied Enerhodar. The city faces daily attacks from artillery, UAVs, and aerial bombs, resulting in damage to residential buildings and infrastructure, as well as civilian casualties. The situation remains tense and dangerous.
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #українці #Нікополь #Дніпропетровщина
🙏🏻🚚📦 Сімейні набори GEM HGBF передані вимушеним переселенцям у центрах підтримки ВПО «Я повернусь Бахмут» Бахмутської громади та «Наш Краматорськ. Ми разом все подолаємо» Краматорської громади у Києві.
📌Бахмут став символом стійкості — місто практично знищене боями та окуповане. Краматорськ залишається мішенню ракет, але не втрачає сили духу.
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🙏🏻🚚📦 GEM HGBF family kits were distributed to internally displaced families at the support centers “I Will Return, Bakhmut” of the Bakhmut community and “Our Kramatorsk. Together We Will Overcome Everything” of the Kramatorsk community in Kyiv.
📌Bakhmut has become a symbol of resilience — a city nearly destroyed by fighting and now under occupation. Kramatorsk remains a target of missile attacks, yet it has not lost its strength of spirit.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #впо #переселенці #гуманітарнадопомога
🚚📦 Команда GEM HGBF доставила та провела роздачу гуманітарної допомоги у селищах Феськи, Чепелі, Малі Феськи та Маяк, Харківської області. 🇺🇦🙏🏻
📌 Регіон піддається атакам ворожої артилерії, що спричиняє руйнування, поранених серед цивільних та потребує регулярної гуманітарної допомоги, яку доставляють волонтери.
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🚚📦 The GEM HGBF team delivered and distributed humanitarian aid in the settlements of Fesky, Chepeli, Mali Fesky, and Maiak, Kharkiv region. 🇺🇦🙏🏻
📌 The region continues to face attacks from enemy artillery, resulting in destruction, injuries among civilians, and an ongoing need for regular humanitarian assistance — which our volunteers work tirelessly to provide.
#всебудеукраїна #globalempowermentmission #hgbf #humanitarianaid #війнатриває
🚚📦🤲🏻 Місія GEM HGBF доставила сімейні набори у селища #Августинівка та #Відрадне, Запорізької області — як доказ того, що світ не відвернувся, у єдності наша сила.🫂🇺🇦
📌Там, де земля пам’ятає вибухи, ми залишаємо турботу.
📌Там, де люди навчилися жити насторожено,
ми привозимо впевненість.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 The GEM HGBF mission delivered family kits to the villages of Avhustynivka and Vidradne in the Zaporizhzhia region — as proof that the world has not turned away. In unity, there is strength. 🫂🇺🇦
📌 Where the землю remembers explosions, we leave care.
📌 Where people have learned to live on alert,
we bring reassurance.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть
Продовжуємо допомогати українцям.📦🙏🏻🇺🇦Команда GEM HGBF доставила гуманітарну допомогу у селище #Роздори, Синельниківського району,
Дніпропетровської області.
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We continue to support Ukrainians.📦🙏🏻🇺🇦GEM HGBF team distributed humanitarian aid in the Rozdory village, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
🚚🤲🏻📦У відповідь на гуманітарні потреби громад Запорізької області команда GEM HGBF здійснила видачу сімейних продуктових наборів у селищах #Українка, Камʼяне та #Куприянівка.
🫂💛💙Мета — підтримати родини, які постраждали від наслідків бойових дій.
Ми продовжуємо координовану та системну допомогу найбільш вразливим громадам.
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🚚🤲🏻📦 In response to the humanitarian needs of communities in the Zaporizhzhia region, the GEM HGBF team carried out the distribution of family food kits in the villages of Ukrainka, Kamiane, and Kupriyanivka.
🫂💛💙 Our goal is to support families affected by the consequences of hostilities.
We continue to provide coordinated and systematic assistance to the most vulnerable communities.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Запорізькаобласть
📍Селище Мирове, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровської області
🚚💧2808 пляшок питної мінеральної води GEM HGBF.
🤲🏻 Доставлено волонтерами.
Війна триває — ми працюємо.
Людям потрібна підтримка — ми поруч.
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📍 The village of Myrove, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region
🚚💧 2,808 bottles of drinking mineral water from GEM HGBF.
🤲🏻 Delivered by our volunteers.
The war continues — and so does our work.
People need support — and we remain by their side.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #Мирове
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
