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❤️📦🤲🏻 Видача гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у незламному Херсоні.
📌Останні новини: російські війська посилили дроновий терор у передмісті Херсона. 24 квітня безпілотник скинув вибухівку на трьох волонтерів, також повідомлялося про атаку на інший населений пункт поблизу Херсона, де поранено двох людей.
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❤️📦🤲🏻 Distribution of GEM HGBF humanitarian aid in resilient Kherson.
📌 Latest updates: russian forces have intensified drone terror in the outskirts of Kherson. On April 24, a drone dropped explosives on three volunteers. There were also reports of an attack on another settlement near Kherson, where two people were injured.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #ХерсонцеУкраїна #гуманітарнадопомога
🙏🏻🪟 У рамках нашої віконної програми, спільно з Фондом Говарда Дж.Баффетта, ми завершили встановлення нових вікон у домівках, зруйнованих повномасштабною військовою агресією росії проти України.
Допомогу отримали 10 родин загиблих Захисників і Захисниць та зниклих безвісти військовослужбовців.
Для нас це не лише про відновлення житла — це про турботу, підтримку та глибоку вдячність тим, хто заплатив найвищу ціну за свободу України.
Щиро дякуємо нашим партнерам — Ірпінській міській раді, команді Управління з питань ветеранської політики та кожному, хто долучився до цієї важливої ініціативи.
Разом відновлюємо. Разом підтримуємо. Разом сильні 🇺🇦
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🙏🏻🪟As part of our Window Program, together with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, we have completed the installation of new windows in homes damaged by Russia’s full-scale military aggression against Ukraine.
Support was provided to 10 families of fallen defenders and defenders, as well as military personnel missing in action.
For us, this is not only about restoring homes — it is about care, support, and deep gratitude to those who paid the highest price for Ukraine’s freedom.
We sincerely thank our partners — the Irpin City Council, the team of the Department for Veterans Policy, and everyone who contributed to this important initiative.
Together we restore. Together we support. Together we are stronger. 🇺🇦
@av_babenko_ua @michaelcapponi
@globalempowermentmission
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #віконнапрограмма_gemhgbf #війнатриває #волонтери
🙏🏻❤️🫂🇺🇦Величезна подяка нашим хоробрим волонтерам, які прийшли на допомогу мешканцям селища Трифонівка, Бериславського району, Херсонської області.
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🙏🏻❤️🫂🇺🇦 Heartfelt thanks to our brave volunteers who came to support the residents of the village of Tryfonivka, Beryslav district, Kherson region.
#hgbf #globalmepowermentmission #Херсонщина #херсонськаобласть #Трифонівка
🙏🏻🫂КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ - МОЖЛИВІСТЬ ТВОРИТИ ДОБРО! Команда GEM HGBF відвідала селище Зеленівка, Херсонської області:
Наш внесок:
📦 Продуктові сімейні набори
❤️ Щира підтримка
🤝 Уважне спілкування
Результат?
✨ Безмежна вдячність і нові сили рухатися далі!
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🙏🏻🫂EVERY DAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO GOOD!
The GEM HGBF team visited the village of Zelenivka in the Kherson region:
Our contribution:
📦 Family food kits
❤️ Sincere support
🤝 Thoughtful, attentive communication
The result?
✨ Boundless gratitude and renewed strength to keep moving forward!
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Зеленівка
🙏🏻📦🫂🇺🇦Незламний дух волонтерства: Команда GEM продовжує свою місію в Донецькій області. Минулого тижня селище Новодонецьке, Краматорського району отримало життєво важливу допомогу у вигляді сімейних наборів GEM HGBF.
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🙏🏻📦🫂🇺🇦 The unbreakable spirit of volunteering: the GEM team continues its mission in the Donetsk region. Last week, the village of Novodonetske, Kramatorsk district, received vital support in the form of GEM HGBF family kits.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть
🏥👩⚕️👨⚕️Вони чують вибухи. І все одно заходять в операційну.
🙏🏻📦🤲🏻 Сімейні набори GEM HGBF доставлені до лікарні у Херсоні, де медики не зупиняються ні на хвилину.
Це місце, де страх відходить на другий план.
Бо попереду — люди, які потребують допомоги. Ми поруч, щоб підтримати тих, хто щодня рятує життя.❤️🫂
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🏥👩⚕️👨⚕️ They hear explosions. And still walk into the operating room.
🙏🏻📦🤲🏻 GEM HGBF family kits were delivered to a hospital in Kherson, where medical workers never stop, not even for a moment.
This is a place where fear fades into the background — because ahead are people who need help. We are here to support those who save lives every day. ❤️🫂
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #лікарня #гуманітарнадопомога
🚛📦🤲🏻Дистрибуція сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у Ямпільській громаді, Сумської області.
📌 Станом на 22 квітня 2026 року, ситуація в Ямпільській громаді залишається вкрай напруженою через постійні обстріли та атаки.
У ніч на 22 квітня російська армія завдала масованого удару безпілотниками по одному з сіл громади. Внаслідок атаки загинув 59-річний чоловік.
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🚛📦🤲🏻 Distribution of GEM HGBF family kits in the Yampil community, Sumy region.
📌 As of April 22, 2026, the situation in the Yampil community remains tense due to constant shelling and attacks.
On the night of April 22, the russian army carried out a massive drone strike on one of the villages in the community. As a result of the attack, a 59-year-old man was killed.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Ямпільськагромада
❤️📦🙏🏻 У селищі Молодіжне, Херсонської області відбулась видача сімейних наборів GEM HGBF.
Проста допомога, яка стає великим ресурсом для життя. Коли світ здається хитким — найцінніше, що можна дати, це опору.🫂💛💙
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❤️📦🙏🏻 In the village of Molodizhne, Kherson region, GEM HGBF family kits were distributed.
Simple aid that becomes a vital resource for life. When the world feels unstable — the most valuable thing you can give is support. 🫂💛💙
Коли світ здається розбитим — важливо відчувати, що хтось поруч. Селища Іванівка та Красне, Чернігівська область отримали гуманітарну допомогу GEM HGBF. Це про єдність, про людей для людей. 🙏🏻🫂💛💙
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When the world feels broken, it matters to know someone is there. The villages of Ivanivka and Krasne in the Chernihiv region received GEM HGBF humanitarian aid.
This is about unity — about people for people. 🙏🏻🫂💛💙
🙏🏻🚛❤️📦 У відповідь на триваючу гуманітарну кризу місія GEM HGBF забезпечує регулярну доставку гуманітарної допомоги у прифронтові громади.
📦💦Минулого тижня — близько 1500 сімей у селищах Очеретине та Михайлівка, Краматорського району, Донецької області отримали сімейні набори та мінеральну воду.
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🙏🏻🚛❤️📦 In response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the GEM HGBF mission ensures regular delivery of humanitarian aid to frontline communities.
📦💦 Last week, around 1,500 families in the villages of Ocheretyne and Mykhailivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region, received family kits and mineral water.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть #Очеретине
🙏🏻 Іноді допомога — це єдине, що нагадує: життя триває.
📍Селище #Наддніпрянське, Херсонська область.
📦Сімейні набори GEM HGBF передані.
А разом із ними — ще трохи віри, що завтра настане.
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🙏🏻 Sometimes aid is the only thing that reminds us: life goes on.
📍 Naddniprianske village, Kherson region.
📦 GEM HGBF family kits have been delivered.
And with them — a little more faith that tomorrow will come.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть
🏘️ ❤️Коли дім залишається за лінією окупації — серце теж ніби там. ВПО з Чулаківської громади вже давно не вдома, але минулого тижня у Херсоні вони отримали щось важливе.
🚚🤲🏻🫂Турботу від команди GEM HGBF, яка не питає, скільки ти втратив, а просто приходить і підтримує.
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🏘️❤️ When home remains beyond the line of occupation, the heart feels like it’s still there. IDPs from the Chulakivka community have long been away from home, but last week in Kherson they received something important.
🚚🤲🏻🫂 Care from the GEM HGBF team — which doesn’t ask how much you’ve lost, but simply shows up and supports.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Херсон #впо #Чулаківськагромада
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
