Category: BEARR News
Project Report: Social Workers: Key to helping victims of violence
SGS 2024 Grantee: Oasis Foundation, Kyrgyzstan Project: Training and Resource Centres for social workers The project has helped create a platform for social workers and psychologists who have not only gone through training to identify victims of violence, but are also willing to work together. A total of 60 social workers and psychologists have been trained …
Ukraine’s recovery cannot wait until Russia’s invasion is over
The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Officer, Anna Morgan, attended the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome on July 10-11 in her capacity as Programme Manager for Russia and Eurasia and Manager of the Ukraine Forum at the Chatham House think-tank. Here is her article “Ukraine’s recovery cannot wait until Russia’s invasion is over”, in which she …
Project Report: Finding Strength Far from Home
SGS 2024 Grantee: The Leader, Kremenchuk, Ukraine Project: Bridges of Cooperation: Unity of people and dreams When the war came closer to the city of Kostyantinivka in Donetsk region in the summer of 2024, Natalia, 43, had no choice but to flee. She packed a few belongings, took her 14-year-old daughter Svitlana by the hand, and …
Incorrect information published about The BEARR Trust
It has come to our attention that an organisation called the Ukraine Development Trust states on its website that in 2024 it donated funds to The BEARR Trust. This is incorrect: The BEARR Trust has never received funds from, nor donated any funds to The Ukraine Development Trust and has not had any kind of …
BEARR Newsletter June 2025
Art therapy sessions for children living in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners June 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this summer edition of our newsletter, we give an update on the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, and reflect on its launch event with Professor Victoria Donovan. We’re also pleased to announce the selected projects for this year’s Small Grants Scheme, …
Project Report: How seeds became a path to self-employment
SGS 2024 Grantee: Voznesensk Community Foundation in partnership with the Agency for Economic Development (AED), Ukraine Project: New Agrarians: self-employment of IDPs through agricultural production Despite its modest budget, this initiative, supported by the BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme, demonstrated impressive results and proved that quality seeds and knowledge can be powerful tools to support people facing …
Project Report: Beyond Drama: How Dialogue and Support Changed Lives in Odesa
SGS 2024 Grantee: Ukrainian Sisters Are Kidfriendly, Odesa, Ukraine Project: Joint Adaptation of Mothers and Children In 2024–2025, with support from The BEARR Trust, our foundation implemented this project for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Odesa. What began as a simple goal—to help women and children feel more supported in a new city—quickly evolved into something …
Book Review: Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East
Review by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – 13 May 2025 Life in Spite of Everything is a thoughtful and elegiac book dedicated to the people and places of the ‘Donbas’ region in eastern Ukraine. The author, Professor Victoria Donovan, interweaves analysis of the region’s colonial and industrial histories with personal memoir and lyrical descriptions of …
Report: Professor Victoria Donovan talk – 8 May 2025
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – 24 May 2025 Talk topic: Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East Speaker: Professor Victoria Donovan In conversation with: Ross Gill, BEARR Chair The BEARR Trust marked the launch of the new Ukraine Community Resilience Fund with a special online event on 8 May with …
Project Report: Safe Spaces for Women in Wartime
SGS 2024 Grantee: Country of Goodwill and Human Rights Bureau ‘We are’, Berezan, Kyiv region, Ukraine Project: Recovery and Resilience: Strengthening the cohesion of vulnerable groups, their potential and resilience in the context of the ongoing war A Solution That Offers Grounding: How Mutual Support Communities Became Safe Spaces for Women During Wartime Ukraine remains under …
