International Press on GEM Ukraine Missions
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Стійкість починається з підтримки.
🚚🤲🏻📦Сімейні набори GEM HGBF були доставлені в Покровське та #Нікополь, Дніпропетровської області, як частина нашої місії допомагати цивільним, які постраждали від війни.
🙏🏻💛Поки є надія, ми продовжуємо допомагати. Дякуємо вам, наші хоробрі волонтери, за вашу незаперечну відвагу.
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Resilience begins with support.
🚚🤲🏻📦 GEM HGBF family kits were delivered to Pokrovske and Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, as part of our mission to support civilians affected by the war.
🙏🏻💛 As long as there is hope, we will continue to help. Thank you to our brave volunteers for your unwavering courage.
#Hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
🚚📦🤲🏻Дистрибуція сімейних наборів GEM HGBF вимушеним переселенцям з лівого берегу у селищі Кочубеївка, Бериславського району, Херсонської області.
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🚚📦🤲🏻 Distribution of GEM HGBF family kits to internally displaced people from the left bank in the village of Kochubeivka, Beryslav district, Kherson region.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Херсонщина #Херсонськаобласть #Кочубеївка
📍🤲🏻🦺🙏🏻 Золочів, Харківської області — теплі жилети GEM HGBF і серця, що не здаються. 🫂🥹 Бо навіть у найхолодніші дні людяність гріє найсильніше.
* Постійні обстріли: Селище та громада страждають від ударів КАБами, БПЛА («Молнія»), артилерії та танків.
* Постраждалі: Російські війська часто цілять у центр селища. Зафіксовані випадки поранень цивільних, зокрема дітей.
* Золочівська громада знаходиться під постійною загрозою, а ворог намагається знищити інфраструктуру, використовуючи прикордонне розташування для швидкого дольоту снарядів.
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📍🤲🏻🦺🙏🏻 Zolochiv, Kharkiv region — warm GEM HGBF vests and hearts that refuse to give up. 🫂🥹 Because even on the coldest days, humanity is the strongest warmth.
* Constant shelling: the village and community suffer from strikes by KAB aerial bombs, UAVs (“Molniya”), artillery, and tanks.
* Civilians affected: Russian forces often target the center of the village. Civilian injuries have been recorded, including children.
* The Zolochiv community remains under constant threat, as the enemy uses its border proximity to launch rapid strikes and destroy critical infrastructure.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Золочів
🙏🏻🫂💛Глобальна Місія Розширення Прав та Можливостей за підтримки Фонду Говарда Дж.Баффетта доставила гуманітарну допомогу у селища Чепелі, Малі Феськи, Феськи та Маяк, Харківської області.
Допомага – це мова серця. Сімейні набори GEM HGBF досягли своєї мети завдяки відважним волонтерам GEM. 📦💌🤝
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🙏🏻🫂💛 The Global Empowerment Mission, with the support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, delivered humanitarian aid to the villages of Chepeli, Mali Fesky, Fesky, and Mayak in the Kharkiv region.
Help is the language of the heart. GEM HGBF family kits reached those in need thanks to the brave GEM volunteers. 📦💌🤝
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Харківщина #Харківськаобласть #Феськи
Війна б’є по інфраструктурі. Ми — по відчаю.
🇺🇦📍Місто Прилуки, Чернігівської області регулярно переживають атаки, що залишають місто без світла.
Але не без надії.
💛📦🤲🏻Сімейні набори GEM HGBF — це підтримка в момент, коли здається, що ніч надто довга. Разом ми робимо її коротшою.
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War strikes infrastructure. We strike despair.
🇺🇦📍The city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region regularly suffers attacks that leave the city without electricity.
But not without hope.
💛📦🤲🏻 GEM HGBF family kits are support in the moments when the night feels too long.
Together, we make it shorter.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівськаобласть #Чернігівщина #Прилуки
🚚🤲🏻🛍️Видача дитячих наборів GEM HGBF діткам ВПО з Мелітопольської громади у 23 гімназії у місті Запоріжжя.
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🚚🤲🏻🛍️ Distribution of GEM HGBF children’s kits to displaced children from the Melitopol community at Gymnasium No. 23 in Zaporizhzhia.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Запоріжжя #Мелітополь #впо
🚚💧📦Доставлення сімейних наборів GEM HGBF та мінеральноі води у місто #Сновськ та у селища Старі Боровичі, Чепелів та Рогізки, Чернігівської області.
Громади, які не здаються. Люди, які тримаються. Вони не звикли жалітися.
Вони звикли виживати. Ми приїхали, щоб бути поруч. Бо навіть найсильнішим потрібна підтримка.
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🚚💧📦 Delivery of GEM HGBF family food kits and bottled water to the town of Snovsk and the villages of Stari Borovychi, Chepeliv, and Rohizky, Chernihiv region.
Communities that do not give up. People who keep going. They are not used to complaining.
They are used to surviving. We came to stand beside them. Because even the strongest need support.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Чернігівщина #Чернігівськаобласть
Добро не має кордонів. І сьогодні воно тут.
📍 Миколаївська область. Наші волонтери доставили сімейні набори GEM HGBF у селище #Куцуруб.
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Kindness knows no borders. And today, it is here.
📍 Mykolaiv region. Our volunteers delivered GEM HGBF family food kits to the village of Kutsurub.
#hgbf #globalempowermentmission #Миколаївщина #Миколаївськаобласть
🚚💧 Кролевецька громада, Сумської області отримала мінеральну воду GEM HGBF.
І разом із нею — частинку турботи з усього світу.
📌 Основні факти про ситуацію в громаді:
* Типи обстрілів: Застосування ствольної артилерії, мінометів, ракетних систем та авіаційних бомб.
* Наслідки: Руйнування житлових будинків, об’єктів критичної інфраструктури, навчальних закладів.
* Безпекова ситуація: Високий ризик, через що влада закликає жителів прикордонних населених пунктів до евакуації.
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🚚💧 The Krolevets community in the Sumy region received GEM HGBF mineral water.
And with it — a piece of care from around the world.
📌 Key facts about the situation in the community:
• Types of attacks: shelling with artillery, mortars, rocket systems, and aerial bombs.
• Consequences: destruction of residential buildings, critical infrastructure, and educational facilities.
• Security situation: high risk, which is why authorities urge residents of border settlements to evacuate.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Сумщина #Сумськаобласть
🌻🏘️ 🇺🇦Допомога в селах продовжується! Нещодавно ми дісталися до Васильківки та Самарського, Синельниківського району, Дніпропетровської області. Наша команда вже розповсюдила сімейні набори GEM HGBF серед потребуючих мешканців. Спільно з Фондом Говарда Дж.Баффетта ми змінюємо життя на краще! 📦🫂🙏🚚
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🌻🏘️🇺🇦 Support in rural communities continues! Recently, we reached the villages of Vasylkivka and Samarske in the Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region. Our team has already distributed GEM HGBF family kits to residents in need.
Together with the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, we are changing lives for the better. 📦🫂🙏🚚
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть #війнатриває
🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦Величезна подяка нашим хоробрим волонтерам, які прийшли на допомогу в місті Краматорськ, Донецької області. Команда доставила сімейні набори GEM HGBF та мінеральну воду. 📦💧
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🙏🏻🫂🇺🇦 Huge thanks to our brave volunteers who came to support the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
The team delivered GEM HGBF family food kits and mineral water. 📦💧
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Донецькаобласть #Донеччина #Краматорськ
🙏🏻🫂 Звіт про нашу гуманітарну допомогу в Нікопольському районі, Дніпропетровської області.
💛📦🤲🏻Команда GEM HGBF провела видачу сімейних наборів мешканцям селища Олексіївка.
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🙏🏻🫂 Report on our humanitarian aid in the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region.
💛📦🤲🏻 The GEM HGBF team distributed family food kits to the residents of the village of Oleksiivka.
#HGBF #globalempowermentmission #Дніпропетровщина #Дніпропетровськаобласть
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
