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New BEARR Special Adviser Armorer Wason
Armorer Wason has kindly agreed to join BEARR as a Special Adviser. Armorer spent the latter years of the 20th century researching and producing documentaries in the former communist countries for...
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BEARR Newsletter April 2024
Art therapy session in north-eastern Ukraine funded by BEARR April 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, As spring arrives, we’re delighted to share the latest updates and achievements from the BEARR...
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Project Report: Fortifying the mental health and emotional resilience of...
SGS 2023 Grantee: Partnership for Education and Communication (PEC), Georgia Project: Improving Youth Mental Health through Emotional resilience Here is their report: According to Geostat (National...
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BEARR CSO Survey
The BEARR Trust is kindly inviting representatives of civil society organizations from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus to participate in an Annual Survey. This survey intends to...
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Project Report: Two mountain passes, seven hours in the car; a shared mission...
SGS 2023 Grantee: “Gulrukhsor”, Khujand, with “Ghamkhori”, Bokhtar, Tajikistan Project: To amplify the voices of women suffering from domestic violence and build NGO capacity Here is their report: In...
View Article‘The Hidden Wounds of War’: mental health of Ukraine’s veterans
‘The Hidden Wounds of War’ was the title of a conference organised in May in Lithuania by the Head of the Sakharov Centre in Kaunas (and BEARR patron) Professor Robert van Voren. Its theme was how to...
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BEARR Newsletter June 2024
Children living with autism, evacuated from a war zone, introduce themselves with instruments provided for music therapy through BEARR support June 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition...
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Project Report: Cross-border assistance to migrant workers and their families
SGS 2023 Grantee: “Korgan-M”, Shymkent, Kazakhstan, in partnership with “Sogdiana”, Uzbekistan, Navoi region, Uchkuduk city. Project: Cross-border support and consultations for migrant workers and...
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Project Report: How Best to Support Children with Disabilities?
SGS 2023 Grantee: Taldykorgan Regional Women’s Support Center, Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Project: Assessment of funding and services for children with disabilities and their accessibility. Here is their...
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Book Review: I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country, and Take My Grief...
To title a book I Love Russia, in these times, is provocative. It invites questions, including: What is ‘Russia’? Or, if that is too complicated, which aspects of Russia does the author love, and why?...
View ArticleFreelance part-time job opportunity for translator and website assistant
Deadline for applications 15 September 2024 The BEARR Trust is looking for a UK-based bilingual Russian/Ukrainian translator with excellent English, to work on a part-time and freelance basis on the...
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BEARR’s 2024 Annual Lecture “Ukraine — What Next?”
The BEARR Trust is delighted to invite you to its 2024 Annual Lecture, kindly hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at their headquarters in Canary Wharf (5 Bank St,...
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BEARR Newsletter August 2024
Through BEARR support our partners purchased a number of second-hand bicycles to help important community workers get around some of the villages in Kharkiv region. Photo by Valentina Petrova August...
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The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2024
The Trustees of the BEARR Trust are delighted to invite you to our Annual Conference which will take place on Friday 29 November 2024. The theme will be: “Civil society innovation in health and social...
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Improving dementia care for Jewish communities in the post-Soviet region
By Beth Saffer, Head of Older Peoples Programmes, World Jewish Relief World Jewish Relief first started looking into the issue of dementia in Ukraine and our other Eastern European countries of...
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Book Review: Our Daily War by Andrey Kurkov
Review by Janet Gunn, BEARR Trustee Andrey Kurkov is probably the best-known living Ukrainian writer outside his own country, and especially in the UK. His ‘Death and the Penguin’, set in the...
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New Website Assistant at The BEARR Trust
The BEARR Trust is delighted to welcome Oksana Yurchenko as the new part-time Website Assistant responsible for the Russian and Ukrainian sides of the website. Oksana holds a Specialist degree in...
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The BEARR Trust Annual Review 2023
Now available, the 2023 Annual Review presents a shorter, reader-friendly version of our annual accounts capturing the essence of our work over the past year.The review highlights key aspects of our...
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BEARR Newsletter October 2024
As part of a BEARR partners’ project aimed at building social entrepreneurship skills, IDPs in Chernivtsi learn to bake October 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, As we approach the colder months, we...
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Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture – October 23, 2024
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – November 6, 2024 Lecture title: “Ukraine – What Next?” Speaker: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman Followed by a Q&A discussion chaired by Sir Roderic Lyne, BEARR...
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