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thebearrtrust

UK NGO focussed on health & social welfare issues in E. Europe, Central Asia & the Caucasus since 1991 🇦🇲🇦🇿🇧🇾🇬🇪🇰🇿🇰🇬🇲🇩🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇦🇺🇿

Belated greetings on #VolunteersDay to our partner

Belated greetings on #VolunteersDay to our partners & their volunteers.

For over 30 years thebearrtrust has relied on its trustees who volunteer their time & expertise, as well as many volunteers who support our work.

Want to volunteer for us? 👇
https://bearr.org/get-involved/

thebearrtrust is delighted to welcome four new Tru

thebearrtrust is delighted to welcome four new Trustees, who will bring additional experience and enhanced skills to the Board.

🔹Charles Garrett
🔹Helen Goodman
🔹Sam Thorne
🔹Sabrina Vashisht

Read about them on our website bearr.org.

Violence against women & girls remains a widesprea

Violence against women & girls remains a widespread and critical concern in Tajikistan.

thebearrtrust was glad to support a project run by Gulrukhsor & ghamkhori within our #SmallGrantsScheme 2023.

They aim to amplify voices of women suffering from domestic violence & build capacity of NGOs involved, including advocacy.

📸 Photos are from the village of Navkat in Spitamen region. It is a meeting with community leaders to talk about what role they can play in reducing violence against women.

🗯️'Ukraine is a nation that has had to bear s

🗯️'Ukraine is a nation that has had to bear so much grief, and we have learned to value life, relationships, love. Perhaps that is why we cannot be beaten'

This is a quote from a recent letter of our #UkraineAppeal grantee, who despite losing her house to the flood after Kakhovka dam destruction, refuses to leave Kherson and the families she supports, despite the constant shelling.

At The BEARR Trust we have devoted a lot of effort over the summer and autumn to supporting community-based therapy delivered by small voluntary groups, some with psychologists, others involving art, music, dance and drama. Recently, much of our support has gone to groups working in Zaporyzhzhiya, Odesa, Kherson, and Kharkiv.

Read more about our work in Ukraine in our new website article.

📸 A pottery class for displaced families in western Ukraine.

📸 Glad to share photo album from The BEARR Trus

📸 Glad to share photo album from The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2023 that took place on 17 November 2023.

Grateful to almost 100 conference participants who joined us in person and online. Many thanks to those who sent their feedback.

Special thanks to our speakers & moderators:
🔹Nicola Ramsden, BEARR Chair
🔹Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee
🔹Natalia Shmurikova, Center for Strategic Initiatives, Khmelnitskiy, Ukraine
🔹Liudmyla Byts, Friendly Space, Dubno, Ukraine
🔹Max Maslennikov, Charity Fund “Reconstruction of Ukraine”, Dnipro, Ukraine
🔹Michael Rasell, BEARR Trustee
🔹Tamara Lomadze, Povernis, Odesa, Ukraine
🔹 Reima Ana Maglajlic, University of Sussex, Department of Social Work and Social Care, UK
🔹Paul Niland, Lifeline Ukraine
🔹Janet Gunn, BEARR Trustee

We will be releasing conference recording on our YouTube shortly. Please subscribe to get a notification of release 👇
https://www.youtube.com/thebearrtrust8333

🗯️ 'We see our role in providing comprehensiv

🗯️ 'We see our role in providing comprehensive psychological, legal & social support.'

says Tamara Lomadze 🇺🇦 from Odesa based NGO 'Povernys'.

Join to hear more from her & other speakers of thebearrtrust annual conference on 17 Nov (in London & online).

Registration via link in bio.

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