Category: BEARR News
BEARR Newsletter August 2023
BEARR’s partner in Kharkiv delivering chicks to villagers in order to provide them with a long-lasting and self-sufficient source of food 15 August 2023 Dear friends and colleagues, We hope this finds you safe and well. In this summer edition of our newsletter, we bring you the latest updates from our Emergency Appeal for Ukraine and Moldova, as well as …
Supporting the humanitarian front in Ukraine
Podcast of interview with BEARR Chairman, Nicola Ramsden, at a conference at the Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, University of Southampton, on 10 July 2023 To listen, click here.
Project Report from Oasis, Kyrgyzstan
Helping care leavers to embark on their new life Grantee: Public Charitable Foundation OASIS, Kyrgyzstan Project: Care Leavers Support In 2022, more than 10,700 vulnerable children lived in 130 children’s residential institutions in Kyrgyzstan. Depending on the type of institution, young people are required to leave between the ages of 14 and 17, and their departure from …
Demining Ukraine: the challenges of making land safe in an ongoing war
Article provided by August 2023 As the war in Ukraine continues unabated, there is one issue which dominates the global headlines: landmines. Before Putin’s troops invaded on 24th February 2022, it was generally accepted that the landmine was becoming a welcome relic of the twentieth century. The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is regarded as one of the …
The BEARR Trust’s Autumn Lecture 2023: “War in Ukraine and mental health: the long-term consequences”
The BEARR Trust is very grateful to Professor Robert van Voren for giving our autumn lecture online on 13 September 2023. The theme of his online lecture was: “War in Ukraine and mental health: the long-term consequences” – a topic of crucial importance at this time, and one that the BEARR Trust’s grants have been addressing …
WE ARE RECRUITING A CO-CHAIRMAN AND NEW TRUSTEES
JOIN THE BEARR TRUST BOARD AND HELP VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA The BEARR Trust is recruiting additional trustees, including one who is expected to become co-chairman in June 2024. If you are interested in health and social welfare and have some knowledge of the region where The BEARR Trust works – …
BEARR Newsletter June 2023
Dear friends and colleagues, The last few weeks have been dominated by the horrendous news of the dam breach in Ukraine and the further devastation that has brought to the long-suffering population. At BEARR we have been trying to react with speed to the urgent requests we are receiving. Details here. The good news for BEARR …
Congratulations to Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee, on her award of an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours
The citation notes that Megan received the award under the Overseas and International Honours List ‘for services to Civil Society Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’. But she was also singled out in the associated press release for a fuller dedication: ‘Megan Bick is recognised for an outstanding and sustained contribution to marginalised groups …
Freelance part-time job opportunity for Russian-Ukrainian-English translator and website assistant
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 deadline for applications has now passed. Applicants will be contacted soon. The BEARR Trust is a small British charity supporting vulnerable groups in Eastern Europe, the South …
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 …
