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🇺🇦Там, де важко — ми стаємо опорою. Там, де боляче — ми приносимо турботу.
📍🚚📦 Сімейні набори GEM HGBF уже в місті Дергачі, Харківської опалення. Дякуємо кожному, хто підтримує цю місію.
Бо разом — ми сильніші. Разом — ми світло. 🫂✨
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🇺🇦 Where it is hard — we become support. Where it hurts — we bring care.
📍🚚📦 GEM HGBF family kits have already reached the city of Derhachi, Kharkiv region.
Thank you to everyone who supports this mission.
Because together we are stronger. Together, we are light. 🫂✨
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть
🙏🏻🫂Війна втомлює. Але доброта не здається.
📍🚚📦Наші волонтери доставили допомогу у селища Мирове, Топила та Анастасівка, Нікопольського району, Дніпропетровська область.
GEM-бокси — як нагадування: ви не самі. Ми поруч.
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🙏🏻🫂 War is exhausting. But kindness does not give up.
📍🚚📦 Our volunteers delivered aid to the villages of Myrove, Topyla, and Anastasivka in the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
GEM boxes are a reminder: you are not alone. We are with you.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #гуманітарнадопомога
🚚Команда GEM HGBF доставила гуманітарну допомогу вимушеним переселенцям у Центр підтримки Купʼянчан та у Основʼянський район у місті Харків.🤲🏻📦🙏🏻🇺🇦
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🚚 The GEM HGBF team delivered humanitarian aid to internally displaced people at the Kupiansk Residents Support Center and in the Osnovianskyi district of the city of Kharkiv. 🤲🏻📦🙏🏻🇺🇦
#globalempowermentmission #hgbf#всебудеукраїна #Харків
#впо
📍🚚📦Успішно доставлені сімейні набори GEM HGBF в село Богинівка, Синельниківського району,
Дніпропетровської області.
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📍🚚📦GEM HGBF family kits were successfully delivered in the village of Bohynivka, Dnipropetrovsk region.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #волонтериукраїни #волонтери #допомогаукраїнцям
🚚📦🤲🏻Дистрибуція сімейних наборів GEM HGBF у центрі підтримки ВПО Краматорської громади « Наш Краматорськ. Ми разом все подолаємо» у місті Дніпро.
📌Чому люди їдуть:
Минулої доби, 8 лютого, росіяни вдарили КАБ-250 по житловому кварталу Краматорська. Загинула 77-річна жінка, поранені троє чоловіків віком 40, 46 та 48 років (за даними Донецької обласної прокуратури). Жити там – означає щодня ризикувати життям. Тепер їхнє життя – у Дніпрі. Без дому, без звичного, але живі.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 Distribution of GEM HGBF family kits at the IDP support center of the Kramatorsk community “Our Kramatorsk. Together we will overcome everything” in the city of Dnipro.
📌 Why people are fleeing:
On February 8, russian forces struck a residential neighborhood in Kramatorsk with a KAB-250 aerial bomb. A 77-year-old woman was killed, and three men aged 40, 46, and 48 were injured (according to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office).
Living there means risking your life every single day. Now their lives are in Dnipro — without a home, without the familiar, but alive.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #переселенці #НашКраматорськ #впо
Тепло серед холоду війни 🤲🏻❤️
Наша команда повернулася з Бочечківської громади Сумської області, і серце переповнене почуттями…
Ми передали сімейні набори GEM HGBF родинам, які щодня живуть під загрозою ворожих обстрілів. Це прикордонна територія, де звуки війни – не новини з телевізора, а жорстока реальність за вікном.
📦💛🥹 Бачили б ви очі бабусі, яка тримала цю коробку і просто повторювала: «Спасибі, дітоньки, спасибі…»
Ми продовжуємо. Бо кожна родина заслуговує відчути, що вона не сама.
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Warmth in the cold of war 🤲🏻❤️
Our team has returned from the Bochechky community in the Sumy region, and our hearts are overflowing with emotion…
We delivered GEM HGBF family kits to families who live every day under the threat of enemy shelling. This is a border area where the sounds of war are not TV news — they are a harsh reality outside the window.
📦💛🥹 If only you could see the eyes of the elderly woman who held the box and kept repeating, “Thank you, my dears, thank you…”
We continue. Because every family deserves to feel that they are not alone.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть #Бочечки
Сьогодні наші серця наповнені теплом від зустрічей із чудовими людьми. 💛
🚚🤲🏻📦Дистрибуція сімейних наборів GEM HGBF внутрішньо переміщеним особам у координаційних центрах надання гуманітарної допомоги ВПО з Луганської області у місті Дніпро:
📍при Рубіжанській МВА
📍при Сєвєродонецький адміністрації
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Today our hearts are filled with warmth from meeting incredible people. 💛
🚚🤲🏻📦 Distribution of GEM HGBF family kits to internally displaced persons at humanitarian coordination centers for IDPs from Luhansk region in the city of Dnipro:
📍 at the Rubizhne Military Administration
📍 at the Sievierodonetsk Administration
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #idps #впо #переселенці
💧📦🤲🏻Видача гуманітарної допомоги GEM HGBF у місті Краматорськ, Донецької області є.
📌Бабуся Ганна, 73 роки, несе сімейний набір GEM HGBF додому. Волонтер пропонує допомогти. Вона посміхається:
«Дякую, синку. Але я сама. Я ще можу.»
Знаєте, що нас вражає кожного разу? Не слабкість людей. А їхня СИЛА.🥹🙏🏻
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💧📦🤲🏻 GEM HGBF humanitarian aid distribution in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
📌 Grandmother Hanna, 73 years old, is carrying a GEM HGBF family kit home.
A volunteer offers to help. She smiles and says:
“Thank you, son. But I can manage. I still can.”
Do you know what moves us every time?
Not people’s weakness — but their STRENGTH. 🥹🙏🏻
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Донеччина #Донецькаобласть #Краматорськ
🇺🇦📍У Малинівці, Харківської області до нас підійшла жінка. Мовчки взяла сімейний набір GEM HGBF, кивнула. Почала йти, обернулась, та сказала тихо: «Ви рятуєте нас.»
🙏🏻🫂Ні. Ми просто поруч. Рятуєте себе ви самі – тим, що не здаєтесь, що встаєте кожен ранок, що віддаєте дітям останнє.
Ми тільки даємо вам можливість триматись трохи легше.
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🇺🇦📍 In Malynivka, Kharkiv region, a woman came up to us. She silently took a GEM HGBF family kit, nodded, started to walk away — then turned back and quietly said: “You are saving us.”
🙏🏻🫂 No. We are simply here.
You are saving yourselves — by not giving up, by getting up every morning, by giving your children the last you have.
We only help make it a little easier to hold on.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Малинівка
🚚💧📦Місія GEM HGBF приїхала у селища Майське та Зайцеве, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області.
🙏🏻Тут сотні людей, які залишаються на своїй землі попри все. Які чекають на допомогу. Які вірять у нас. Сьогодні ми не підвели їх - сім’ї отримали сімейні набори GEM HGBF та мінеральну воду.
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🚚💧📦 The GEM HGBF mission arrived in the villages of Maiske and Zaitseve, Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
🙏🏻 Here, hundreds of people remain on their land despite everything. They are waiting for help. They believe in us.
Today, we did not let them down — families received GEM HGBF family food kits and mineral water.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #гуманітарнадопомога
📍🇺🇦Селища #Межиричі, Булахівка та Карабинівка, Павлоградського району, Дніпропетровської області.
💧📦🤲1440 GEM-боксів та 600 - 5 літрових бутилок мінеральної води – це наша відповідь тим, хто думає, що про них забули.
Не забули. Пам’ятаємо. Допомагаємо.🙏🏻🫂💛💙
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📍🇺🇦 The villages of Mezhyrichi, Bulakhivka, and Karabynivka, Pavlohrad district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
🤲💧📦1,440 GEM boxes and 600 five-liter bottles of mineral water — this is our answer to those who think they have been forgotten.
They haven’t. We remember. We help. 🙏🏻🫂💛💙
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
🚚🤲🏻📦Доставлення сімейних наборів GEM HGBF з продуктами харчування у місті Прилуки, Чернігівської області.
📌Прилуки регулярно атакують ударними БпЛА, спрямованими на критичну інфраструктуру, що призводить до відключень електроенергії (наприклад, 7 та 8 жовтня 2025, атака на енергооб’єкт у грудні 2025).
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🚚🤲🏻📦 Delivery of GEM HGBF family food kits to the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region.
📌 Pryluky is regularly targeted by strike UAVs aimed at critical infrastructure, leading to power outages (for example, attacks on October 7–8, 2025, and on an energy facility in December 2025).
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівськаобласть #Чернігівщина #Прилуки
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
