Providing emergency assistance to people in crisis – an initiative in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission.
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Maui Wildfires
- Our GEM BStrong team is on the ground now in Maui, Hawaii, assisting those who have been severely affected by the wildfires.
- Our immediate assistance will come in the form of our BStrong cash cards, which offer survivors the flexibility of purchasing whatever supplies they need most. We will also be offering relocation and short-term accommodation assistance to those who’s homes have been severely damaged or completely destroyed in the fires. We will also be offering support for pets affected.
- Our team will be on the ground indefinitely, ensuring that those on Maui will be given as much long-term support as needed.
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Turkey-Syria Earthquake
- In partnership with Global Empowerment Mission, BStrong has committed an initial $10,000,000 in donated supplies to support the people of Turkey’s devastating string of earthquakes.
- Our team is on the ground following the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake in ground zero providing bulk humanitarian food aid to shelters throughout southeastern Turkey in direct partnership with @turkishembassy @tcmiamibk.
- These supplies are used to feed the shelter which is filled with 10’s of thousands of families who have lost everything.
- The situation on the ground is one of the worst natural disasters of our time. The death toll is rising rapidly & the people displaced from buildings that are no longer livable has created an urgent humanitarian crisis that Global Empowerment Mission is directly supporting at a large scale.
- As always, 100 percent goes to the effort.
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Ukraine Crisis: Most Recent Update
- Bstrong's mandate is getting refugees out and aid into Ukraine #refugeesoutaidin
- Bstrong and Global Empowerment Mission have established 5 warehouses totaling in over 90,000 square feet, with over 5,000 pallet slots
- Bstrong and Global Empowerment Mission have established a Welcome Center in Medyka, Poland/Ukraine border.
- Expansion into Hungary & Romania: Your donation is scaling outside of Poland to partners in two other Ukrainian border countries to provide aid.
- GEM Bstrong will focus primarily on its relocation assistance: Since the border cities are inundated with refugees, we are rapidly identifying people who have friends and family within the EU that can house and support them. Your donation funds 100% of the refugee’s transportation, lodging, and airfare to the destination of their loved ones. Also, we are helping refugees out of tents and into warm homes of Polish families through our connection with the Polish churches.
- Stability housing: With our Polish partners, your donation is renting additional housing facilities to refugees who are unable to find temporary housing through Polish families. We are funding 100% of their housing, food, and transportation needed.
- Non-Ukrainian refugees: We have identified a special class of refugees where the needs are much more complicated due to visa situations and language barriers. With your donation, we are actively working with various agencies to provide a service that other NGOs may not currently provide.
- Bstrong has raised 10M and counting
- Bstrong has now committed to 15M in supplies & 100 containers.
- 550K in medical aid, 100K hygiene kits in transit, 225K supplies for Maldova, 10,000 families to be relocated….more soon.
- With your help and donations, we are able to scale these operations, evacuate women and children, relocate refugees, and provide dignity and safety to those who have been traumatized.
- Please donate to bethenny.com/bstrong
- As always, 100 percent goes to the effort.
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Ukraine Crisis
- Medical tables & OR supplies have been a recent addition to supplies being provided to 🇺🇦 @GEMmissions Medical need is increasing….
- We are working w aerial recovery group green berets via our partner @GEMmissions who will have 20 top level soldiers extracting and evacuating refugees. The situation is intensifying. In addition, we have vans going in & out of Ukraine 🇺🇦 relocating desperate people.
- These fearless warriors are part of our transportation program, risking their lives to drive refugees across the border to safety. This is a multi prong complicated effort coordinated by our on the ground partner Global Empowerment Mission.
- View the video below.
- Please donate to the link above, or at Bethenny.com/bstrong
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Ukraine Crisis: Update
Bstrong team will reach the border City of Budomierz - Hruszów in 1.5 hours, where we are seeing 1 family every 10 minutes. We have committed to $10M in aid distribution via 40 containers with 250k each container. Our new goal is 20 m in aid via 80 containers. Should this be a mass exodus, our goal will be 100 containers, which we have successfully executed in prior disasters. It’s a serious scary situation. Gas is becoming an issue for people attempting to leave Kyiv. We have connected with local parishes and former green beret special ops volunteers and are getting more information every minute. 100% goes directly to the effort. Thank you to Gem for your courage.
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Ukraine Crisis
BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission has committed to sending 100,000 hygiene kits, blankets, generators, and sleeping bags to Ukraine's NATO bordering countries.Initial commitment of supplies will exceed $10M. Our teams will be on the ground in Rzeszów Poland (Polish border to Ukraine) starting February 25, 2022 setting up base camp refugee operations with our Polish and Ukrainian partners.
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Bronx, NY Apartment Building Fire
Bstrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission have activated its first phase response to the Bronx fire disaster at 333 East 181 Street, Bronx NY.
We have committed an initial $100,000 in Bstrong cash cards for all the displaced former residents. In addition we will provide our Family Necessitates Kits for each family. Our phase 2 program will encompass a relocation fund for all survivors.
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Kentucky Tornadoes
A series of potentially EF5 tornadoes – (the highest scale on the Enhanced Fujita ranking) have ravaged 6 states and dozens of towns.
GEM Bstrong in partnership with Louisville City Football Club , Racing Louisville Football Club, Aerial Recovery Group, Good360, Goya, UC Group is mobilizing and will be supporting affected communities immediately.
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Kentucky Tornadoes
A series of potentially EF5 tornadoes – (the highest scale on the Enhanced Fujita ranking) have ravaged 6 states and dozens of towns.
GEM Bstrong in partnership with Louisville City Football Club , Racing Louisville Football Club, Aerial Recovery Group, Good360, Goya, UC Group is mobilizing and will be supporting affected communities immediately.
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US Homeless Holiday Initiative
Due to the latest circumstances, homelessness in the United States has dramatically increased and as of 2021 there are currently 552,830 estimated to be homeless.
BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission, Goya Cares and Good360 has launched a ‘Homeless Holiday Initiative’.
G.E.M. BStrong will be sending a series of full size U.C. Group semi-trucks filled with thousands of Family Necessities Kits, adapted for the homeless population.
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Astroworld Festival Tragedy
The Astroworld concert performance, part of a two-day music festival in Houston, became a mass casualty when a crowd began to compress toward the stage, leaving eight dead and dozens hospitalized. BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission has launched an initiative to support injured survivors with Bstrong cash cards.
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Help Bryn Save the Animals
Bryn and Bethenny had lunch in Chinatown recently and seeing the ducks hanging in the window had a compelling effect on Bryn. When Bethenny later said that the Peking Duck looked good at a Dim Sum restaurant, Bryn stated that she wanted to stop eating animals again. Bethenny and Bryn have both struggled to adhere fully to a vegetarian or vegan diet but have always been 90 percent animal free.
Later that night Bethenny overheard Bryn recording this video. She was taking notes and researching on the internet and is a very compassionate and passionate young sweet girl. We haven’t researched all the data in this video but her dedication and intent speaks for itself. We learn so much from our children and Bethenny is going to do her best to walk the walk with her.
We have decided to choose two of Bryn's favorite charities, PETA and North Shore Animal League, to donate to on her behalf and support her crusade to save animals. If you would like to donate to the Bryn's BStrong Animal Initiative, please click here.
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Hurricane Ida 2021
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission is mobilizing and pre-positioning Trucks with vital necessities for the gulf coast region.
BStrong and Global Empowerment Mission in partnership with Aerial Recovery Group special operatives responded in its first phase disaster relief mission by sending search and rescue teams alongside a series of fully loaded UC Group Trucks with vital necessities.
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Watch: Entrepreneur, philanthropist Bethenny Frankel discusses relief efforts in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida
Read: Elliot's Story
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Haiti Earthquake 2021
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission is on the ground working active in first response.
In response to the massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake, GEM BStrong's response plan has been put into action based on 11 years of working in Haiti with 95 mission trips. GEM will be loading approximately 40 UC Group semi-trucks with over 1000 pallets totaling over 4.5 M in relief supplies that will be shipped throughout September 2021.
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Surfside Condo Collapse
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission is on the ground working directly with victims and city officials
• $500 - $1000 each in cash cards to displaced residents
• Supplying local community centers our BStrong Family Necessities Kits
• BStrong Miami warehouse is stocked with survival kits, lumber, medical, pet, baby supplies food, blankets and relief aid to support victims after this tragedy.
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India COVID
Global Empowerment Mission Bstrong in partnership with Smart Aid is responding to the India Variant B.1.617.2 in its First Phase Disaster Response.
• 50 units of Oxygen Concentrators will be initially distributed throughout several Indian state hospitals and to doctors in rural areas.
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Texas Winter Blackout
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission is responding in the Texas Blackout first phase, by supplying Family Necessity Kits, containing:
• 20 lbs bag of rice
• Assortment of 1-2, 2 lbs bags of beans1-2 lbs bag of oats
• Assortment of protein bars
• Immuse Immune Boosters
• Hydration Kits
• Hygiene supplies – dry shampoo, bars of soap, etc.
• 5 masks, gloves & large hand sanitizer
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BSTRONG Challenge Winner The Big Shot with Bethenny
On Episode 5 of The Big Shot with Bethenny on HBO Max, the applicants were challenged to work in teams to create a video to highlight BStrong. This is the winning video that shows the impact of BStrong’s initiatives across the globe.
After we filmed this video, we hit our goal of $100 million in worldwide aid distributed. As always, 100% of funds raised go directly to the effort.
Hurricane ETA + IOTA
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission is responding in the first phase, disaster relief, by supplying and distributing supplies directly to the people in need.
GEMs on ground partners, Honduran non profit, Humanity and Hope United & Motorrad Angels and Guatemala’s Conred Agency will distribute needed supplies including water purification systems to the affected areas. In addition, our ground partners, Give to Colombia , and ProIsland will be distributing GEM supplies to Providence and Saint Katalina Colombia.
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US Small Business Rebuild
#BStrong in partnership with Global Empowerment Mission mobilized to assist small business owners across the US.
We donated BStrong cash cards to over 100 small businesses to help assist them in rebuilding and reopening as they recover from the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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COVID-19 Initiative
Due to the lack of PPE in the marketplace, BStrong worked directly with manufacturers and distributors to provide PPE to those on the frontlines of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
This initial program will run till December 2020.
• 2,397,213 PPE
• 1,215,155 MASKS
• 1,109,058 HAZMAT SUITS
• $19 MILLION IN AID, PPE, SHIPPING
• ALL 50 STATES, PLUS PUERTO RICO…580 FACILITIES
• 76 UPS TRUCKS
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Puerto Rico Earthquakes
BStrong in partnership with GEM and our Puerto Rico ground partner, Yo No Me Quito, was on the ground within 48 hours of the January 7, 2020 earthquake.
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Hurricane Dorian
BStrong in partnership with GEM and our networks, partners, and teams provided assistance to those in the NW Bahamas.
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Hurricane Irma & Maria
Hurricanes Irma and Maria catastrophically damaged both the Caribbean and Florida. Maria was the tenth-most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, the worst natural disaster in Dominica in its recorded history, and the strongest to make landfall in Puerto Rico since 1928.
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Additional Missions
Paradise Fires – California
Paradise Fires – California
Hurricane Willa – Mexico
Hurricane Michael – Florida
Hurricane Florence – North Carolina
DISCLAIMER: All funds donated to Global Empowerment Mission through the BStrong partnership are restricted to the distribution and logistics of purchasing and delivering disaster relief supplies, sending rescue teams to disaster struck areas, and distributing gift cards to affected populations. 100% of BStrong donations go directly to helping individuals in disaster affected areas with no administrative or overhead expenses withdrawn. GEM is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization providing emergency disaster relief. www.globalempowermentmission.org
