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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 continue to provide support to our partners around Ukraine and give you the latest update on our emergency Appeal. We are delighted to present the Annual Review of our work …
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 efforts in 2023, including the achievements of our Ukraine Appeal, the summary of our Small Grants Scheme, and the various events and activities that brought …
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 Translation from Mariupol State University in Ukraine. She worked as a translator and interpreter in diplomatic institutions in Mariupol and Kyiv. Subsequently, she moved …
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 aftermath of the break-up of the Soviet Union, was probably the first to catch the attention of British readers. Many followed, most recently …
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 operation (Moldova, Belarus and Georgia) back in 2015. The world, of course, was different then. Pre-Covid, pre-war in Ukraine. Yet all was far from …
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 welfare at times of crisis in the BEARR Trust region”. The Annual Conference will focus on the strategies which local organisations …
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 2024 Dear friends and colleagues, In this issue of our newsletter, we bring you the latest updates from our Ukraine Appeal which continues amid the recent tragic attack on a …
BEARR’s 2024 Annual Lecture “Ukraine — What Next?”
The BEARR Trust held its 2024 Annual Lecture, kindly hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at their headquarters in Canary Wharf (5 Bank St, London E14 4BG) on Wednesday 23 October 2024. The lecture titled “Ukraine — What Next?” was given by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman. The Q&A session was moderated …
Freelance 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 tasks described below. The BEARR Trust is a small British charity supporting vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and has …
Book Review: I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country, and Take My Grief Away: Voices from the War in Ukraine
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? Although The BEARR Trust currently has little contact with Russia, and is unable to work there, such questions remain pertinent, …
