Category: BEARR News
The BEARR Trust Autumn Lecture 2022
“Putin’s War: What’s the Endgame?”, with former senior editor at The Economist and author of The New Cold War, Edward Lucas. BEARR’s Autumn Lecture “Putin’s War: What’s the End Game?” took place on Monday 7 November 2022. You can find a recording of the talk on our YouTube channel here. On Monday 7 November internationally recognised …
Ukraine Emergency Winter Appeal
Winter is fast approaching in Ukraine, and with Russia now targeting the country’s heating infrastructure, our partners urgently need money to buy generators, heaters, solar batteries, sleeping bags, blankets and warm clothes. The BEARR Trust has been raising funds since February for humanitarian relief in Ukraine and Moldova. We have received amazing support, raising more than £350,000 thanks …
Project report: Gender-Vector, Kyrgyzstan
Grantee: Gender-Vector, KyrgyzstanProject: “Social Isolation: the route to overcome” – training sessions to support the LGBT community The main goal of our project, “Social Isolation: the route to overcome”, was to help the LGBT community in Kyrgyzstan overcome the socio-economic vulnerabilities that had emerged as a result of COVID-19. The direct beneficiaries of the project …
“From Resilience to Recovery – the role of civil society”: a conference in Kyiv, Lviv and online
On 29-30 September a conference about the critical role of Ukrainian civil society in Ukraine’s recovery was organised by the Ukrainian International Renaissance Foundation. The conference took place in the context of preparations for the London follow-up conference in summer 2023 to the one held in Lugano, Switzerland in July 2022 to present the Ukrainian …
BEARR Newsletter, August 2022
31 August 2022 Dear friends and colleagues, We hope you’re having a lovely summer. In this issue of our newsletter, we bring you an update 0n our Emergency Ukraine Appeal and share our heartfelt thanks to all those who have so generously organised fundraisers on our behalf. And in case you missed our eye-opening talk with trauma surgeon David Nott back …
The BEARR Trust Summer Lecture
Surgery on the front line in Ukraine: David Nott in conversation with Bridget Kendall Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeJune 2022 David Nott is one of the world’s most experienced trauma surgeons. Since the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, he has been on some 27 missions to war zones around the world, supporting local doctors in treating …
Project report: People Plus, Belarus
Grantee: People Plus, BelarusProject: Reducing social isolation of people living with HIV at the age of over 65 years Today there is a large group of people in Belarus, living with HIV and receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ARV), and their numbers will grow in the coming years. These people need not only medical care as they …
Project report: KEDEM, Moldova
Grantee: KEDEM, MoldovaProject: Seminar for staff and volunteers On 17 July 2022, the educational seminar “B-SAFETY” took place with 50 participants from the RVC Volunteer Centre. The workshop was made possible with support from a BEARR grant, for which our team are very grateful! The main goal of the B-SAFETY project was to undertake a …
Mosty-Movy: Volunteer Translators Supporting Ukrainian Refugees in the UK
Two of BEARR’s trustees, Nicola Ramsden and Megan Bick, recently attended the University of Cambridge’s Ukrainian summer school school, where they were introduced to a volunteer organisation, Mosty-Movy, supporting Ukrainian refugees here in the UK. Find out more about their work and how to get involved below: “Mosty-Movy is an online community of over 100 Russian …
Project report: Kids are Kids, Russia
Grantee: Kids are Kids, RussiaProject: Summer camp for marginalised and migrant families The Centre for support and adaptation for children of refugees and migrants “Kids are Kids” is a centre that helps children with linguistic, psychological and social adaptation. Since 1996 the Centre has been giving children from many countries the chance to integrate into …