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BEARR Newsletter: April 2023
Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of BEARR’s newsletter, we bring you an update on our Emergency Appeal for Ukraine and Moldova, including news of a successful bid to the British Embassy Kyiv’s Small Projects Fund in Ukraine. And in case you missed our 30th Anniversary Lecture last month, you can now find a recording …
BEARR report on visit to Moldova: February – March 2023
Alexia Claydon (BEARR’s Information Officer) and Jane Ebel (Muse CIC and BEARR Trustee) spent a week in Moldova playing djembe, Brazilian drums and shakers with children in 6 Refugee Activity Centres, whilst also taking time to meet with several of The BEARR Trust’s beneficiaries and local partners. Community musicians Peter Vilk and Tony Pesikan [centre] …
Small Grants Scheme 2023: Preliminary Results
In contrast to previous years, for 2023 BEARR did not set a specific theme for its Small Grants Scheme. Instead, in line with our long-term mission to foster cooperation at the grassroots level of civil society, we asked for joint projects between two or more CSOs to support vulnerable people in any area of health and social welfare. …
Change of focus for RememberUs in Ukraine
Since the launch of our Emergency Appeal last year, BEARR has been introduced to a number of voluntary organisations in Ukraine. Some of these organisations have come together over the course of last year: groups of ordinary citizens who rallied together in the face of the full-scale invasion. Others had existed before the war, but …
Report: The BEARR Trust’s 30th Anniversary Lecture
Russia: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeMarch 2023 The BEARR Trust’s thirtieth anniversary year saw Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the return of war to Europe and a humanitarian crisis. BEARR has once again supported emergency assistance, as we did in the early 1990s – this time through a …
“Welfare in Russia and Eurasia in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Dr. Charlie Walker
Contributing to a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies dedicated to different marginalised groups in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and drawing on the results of our 2020 CSO Survey, BEARR Trustee Dr. Charlie Walker explores the impact of COVID-19 on these groups, as well as the measures to protect them. Read the full article here.
Project report: Legal Analysis and Research Public Union, Azerbaijan
Grantee: Legal Analysis and Research Public Union, Azerbaijan Project: Pro-bono legal support to migrant workers We collaborated closely with the CSO “Eurasian Migration Initiatives Platform”. Their experts and members were actively involved in the promotion of migrants’ labour rights among the local offices of the organisation through the pamphlets they published. The Chairman of the CSO, …
Project report: MIR, Tajikistan
Grantee: Public Organization “MIR – Office for Initiatives Development”, Tajikistan Project: “Financial literacy: the key to the economic well-being of families of labour migrants” Labour migration is of great importance to the economy of Tajikistan and to maintaining the well-being of the population. The economic crisis in the world and the resulting contraction of the Russian …
Project report: Dialogue, Trust, Rights, Kyrgyzstan
Grantee: Dialogue, Trust, Rights, KyrgyzstanProject: “Love and Care for Every Child” – Training for teachers to provide psychological support for children whose families are affected by migration “Love and Care for Every Child” Batken is one of the leading regions in Kyrgyzstan in terms of the number of outgoing labour migrants. Clearly, one of the …
BEARR Newsletter: February 2023
Dear friends and colleagues, We hope this finds you safe and well. At The BEARR Trust we are, like everyone, appalled and saddened at the loss of life, injury and destruction of homes in Türkiye and Syria as a result of the earthquakes. Our thoughts are with the many thousands of displaced people, the families …
