Category: Newsletter
Project report: Breaking the Silence: Women in Abkhazia Find New Paths to Safety and Support
SGS 2025 Grantee: Women Fund for Development, Abkhazia Project: Voices of Strength: supporting women and girls in Abkhazia When 41-year-old Jana attended a community workshop on domestic violence in her village in eastern Abkhazia, she expected to spend a few hours listening to presentations and then return home. Instead, the experience became a turning point …
Project report: A Story of Change: From Isolation to Hope
SGS 2025 Grantee: New Generation, New Future Youth NGO, Lori Region, Armenia Project: Healthy Childhood: to improve the lives of children with special needs and their caretakers in impoverished areas of the rural Lori region. When 5-year-old Levon with autism first came to our centre in Lori, he rarely spoke to anyone outside his family. …
BEARR Newsletter June 2026
June 2026 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of our newsletter, we are pleased to announce the projects selected under this year’s Small Grants Scheme. We also share the recording of our recent webinar with Ukrainian partners supported through the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, along with the latest fund updates. Looking ahead, we hope you can join our online …
Project report: New hope for those who have lost their breadwinners
SGS 2025 Grantee: Parastor, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Project: Training in entrepreneurship for women and people with disabilities who have been left without a breadwinner For the project ‘Assured Future’, 30 vulnerable individuals were selected who had lost their breadwinner, were unemployed, and needed to gain knowledge and skills in business planning, sales, and marketing, including practical …
BEARR Newsletter April 2026
April 2026 Dear friends and colleagues, As we approach the first anniversary of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund in May, we are hosting an online event on 14 May to reflect on a year of supporting communities affected by the war. We also bring an update on the Small Grants Scheme and would like to thank all those who submitted proposals. We are …
Project report: Sustaining Health and Empowerment: Women Living with HIV Leading Change in EECA
SGS 2025 Grantee: Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA) Project: Improved health outcomes for women living with HIV through community-led education, support and referral aimed at preventing breast and cervical cancer Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), women living with HIV face multiple barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Stigma, discrimination, …
BEARR is seeking a new Honorary Treasurer
Join The BEARR Trust Board and help vulnerable people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia We are recruiting a new Treasurer If you are interested in supporting community-based organisations working with vulnerable people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, you may be able to help us. This is an exciting time to join BEARR’s diverse …
BEARR Newsletter February 2026
February 2026 Dear friends and colleagues, In the first newsletter edition of the year, we are pleased to announce the theme of this year’s Small Grants Scheme and invite organisations from Central Asia and South Caucasus to send their project proposals. We also bring an update on the Community Resilience Fund, highlighting recent grassroots projects. This edition also …
Supporting Frontline Communities This Winter
Grants under the Community Resilience Fund are mainly focused on mental health and community resilience projects. However BEARR is acutely aware that in some places, especially frontline regions, the physical situation is so dire this winter that organisations there may have more immediate priorities. We consulted one such organisation about the various difficulties they face. …
Project report: Team Unity, bringing communities together
SGS 2025 Grantee: NGO New Generation, Obukhiv, Ukraine Project: ‘Team Unity’: integration of young IDPs The project examined how grants can initiate social change and influence the social environment of a community through the practical experience of Team Unity, implemented with the support of The BEARR Trust. When the NGO New Generation was forced to …