School for Survival
Grantee: Parastor, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with partners Project: Skills and business training for vulnerable women and girls The public organisation Parastor from Tajikistan implemented the project...
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BEARR Newsletter December 2023
Dear friends and colleagues, As the year draws to an end, all of us at The BEARR Trust send you our warmest greetings and best wishes for your good health and safety in 2024! This edition of our...
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New Information and Administration Officer at The BEARR Trust
The BEARR Trust is delighted to welcome its new Information and Administration Officer Valdonė Šniukaitė. Currently, Valdonė is pursuing her Master’s degree in International Conflict Studies at King’s...
View ArticleBEARR website now also in Ukrainian!
Our Ukrainian friends and partners will be pleased that our website is now (partly) in three languages – including Ukrainian. Not all pages will be in all languages, and it will take some time to...
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Project report: Together we are a force!
SGS 2023 Grantee: Rushdi Inclusia, with Zanoni komyob, Rogun district, Tajikistan. Project: To inform and support the marginalised population in Rogun. From August 2023 “Rushdi (develop) Inclusia”, a...
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Project report: Combatting child trafficking and gender-based violence in...
SGS 2023 Grantee: Oasis Foundation, Kyrgyzstan. Project: Support for victims of child trafficking and gender-based violence. Research by UNODC and Oasis shows that social orphans, children left...
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Small Grants Scheme 2024: Application statistics
For the 2024 Scheme we were pleased to receive 82 applications from 8 countries: Armenia (8), Azerbaijan (6), Georgia (5), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (3), Moldova (9), Tajikistan (11), Ukraine (38)....
View ArticleRefugees in Armenia
There has been a longstanding dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which the Armenians call Artsakh. Following further hostilities in autumn 2023, virtually...
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Special Advisers
We are delighted that two BEARR Trustees who have come to the end of their terms have kindly agreed to stay on as Advisers. Charlie Walker, who finished his last three-year term as a BEARR Trustee in...
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Project report: Support for Families of People with Disabilities in Armenia
SGS 2023 Grantee: Unison NGO for Support of People with Special Needs, Armenia. Project: Support for Families of Persons with Disabilities in Armenia. All families face various challenges. The...
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Relaunching our Ukraine Appeal: please join us for an online lecture
As the world looks back on two years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The BEARR Trust marks the second anniversary of our Emergency Appeal for Ukraine which we launched on...
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BEARR Newsletter February 2024
A pottery workshop in north-eastern Ukraine funded by BEARR February 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, As the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches, we are...
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Ukraine Appeal fundraising under the EBRD Community Initiative
The BEARR Trust is delighted to announce that it has joined staff of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in a fundraising effort under the Bank’s Community Initiative. The...
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Project report: Help for rural migrants in Tajikistan
SGS 2023 Grantee: Development and support of innovations “Almaz”, Nurek, Tajikistan, with partner CSOs Zanoni Komeb (Women of Komeb), and Садои Кухсор (Sound of Kukhsor). Project: Information centres...
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Project Report: Chance Crisis Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with partner CSOs
WINGS helps combat domestic violence in rural areas of Kyrgyzstan SGS2023 Grantee: Chance Crisis Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with other CSOs Project: Pilot project to test American evidence-based...
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Innovation in a difficult environment: 24 years of Friends of the Belarusian...
Daryl-Ann Hardman MBE Founding trustee and chairwoman, Friends of BCH Why Belarus? Why children’s palliative care? These were the most often asked questions during my twenty four years of NGO activity...
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Investiture of Megan Bick and Daryl-Ann Hardman
Two people who have played a formative role in the history of The BEARR Trust were awarded an MBE in the King’s first Birthday Honours List: Megan Bick (left) is a current trustee and former director...
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New BEARR Trustee Clare Brooks
BEARR is delighted to welcome a new Trustee, Clare Brooks. Clare has worked with grant-making trusts and foundations for over thirty years, in the UK, Central and Eastern Europe and Australia. Her...
View ArticleRethinking resilience: men and conflict trauma in Ukraine
An event at King’s College London, 20 February 2024, on work funded by FCDO through the XCEPT programme (Cross-Border Evidence, Policy and Trends). Moderated by Lt Gen Dr Martin Bricknell,...
View ArticleBook Review: Around the War in Twenty Stories – Ukrainian Tales of Hope,...
Book by Anna Shevchenko This is a book that needed to be written. The author is a Ukrainian who has lived in the UK for a number of years and is a seasoned storyteller. As well as working ceaselessly...
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