Project Report: Arts and crafts foster integration in Armenia
SGS 2024 Grantee: Contribution to Women and Children, operating in the Tavush region of Armenia Project: Economic Stability and the Integration of Displaced Young People and Women from...
View ArticleBEARR Event: Life in Spite of Everything: In conversation with Victoria Donovan
Join The BEARR Trust for a special event on Thursday 8 May at 18:00 BST marking the launch of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund. We’ll be joined by Professor Victoria Donovan, Professor of...
View ArticleProject Report: Integration through Creativity in Ukraine
SGS 2024 Grantee: Association of Community Initiatives Support “ASSA”, Kharkiv, Ukraine Project: New Kharkiv residents. Integration through creativity The city of Kharkiv is located 30 kilometres from...
View ArticleBEARR Newsletter April 2025
Art therapy sessions for IDPs in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners April 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of our newsletter, we announce the launch of the Ukraine Community...
View ArticleProject Report: Empowering the Displaced in Georgia
SGS 2024 Grantee: Association Imedi, Zugdidi, Georgia Project: Engagement of Displaced People for Change In a modest office in Zugdidi, the team behind the project has been quietly leading a...
View ArticleProject Report: Safe Spaces for Women in Wartime
SGS 2024 Grantee: Country of Goodwill and Human Rights Bureau ‘We are’, Berezan, Kyiv region, Ukraine Project: Recovery and Resilience: Strengthening the cohesion of vulnerable groups, their potential...
View ArticleReport: Professor Victoria Donovan talk – 8 May 2025
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – 24 May 2025 Talk topic: Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East Speaker: Professor Victoria Donovan In conversation with: Ross Gill, BEARR Chair...
View ArticleBook Review: Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East
Review by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – 13 May 2025 Life in Spite of Everything is a thoughtful and elegiac book dedicated to the people and places of the ‘Donbas’ region in eastern Ukraine. The author,...
View ArticleProject Report: Beyond Drama: How Dialogue and Support Changed Lives in Odesa
SGS 2024 Grantee: Ukrainian Sisters Are Kidfriendly, Odesa, Ukraine Project: Joint Adaptation of Mothers and Children In 2024–2025, with support from The BEARR Trust, our foundation implemented this...
View ArticleProject Report: How seeds became a path to self-employment
SGS 2024 Grantee: Voznesensk Community Foundation in partnership with the Agency for Economic Development (AED), Ukraine Project: New Agrarians: self-employment of IDPs through agricultural production...
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