Grantee:  Association of Public Assessors, Tajikistan Project: “Homes without violence!”: training for paralegals and publication of articles and information booklets on judicial proceedings and prevention of domestic violence.   The Association of Public Assessors of the Republic of Tajikistan implemented the project “Homes without violence”, with the support of The BEARR Trust’s Small Grant Scheme from July to December 2020.  During the first month, the project group developed handout modules on the following training topics:   “Domestic violence: …

New opportunities for women Grantee:  MIR – Office for Initiatives Development, Tajikistan Project: “Women’s joint work – effective foundation for preventing domestic violence”  Isfara and Bobojon Gafurov are rural districts of Tajikistan, where gender stereotypes and a lack of legal awareness have limited the participation of women and young girls in the decision-making process, both in the family and in social life. By combining the efforts of rural women leaders and women journalists to carry out an awareness campaign about domestic violence prevention, and presenting …

Grantee: MIR – Office for Initiatives Development, Tajikistan Project: “Women’s joint work – effective foundation for preventing domestic violence” For Tajik society, family is the main school of life, since it helps form family members’ ideology and the relationships between people. Family life shapes how humans represent themselves in society.  Muazzamkhon Nazirova, one of the active women in Surkh jamoat, Isfara city, has been making her contribution to life in the community for more than 30 years. Thanks to her, many of her students, …

Here are two articles from Luke Grenfell-Shaw’s time in Moldova as part of an intrepid journey cycling over 23,000km from Bristol to Beijing, via many of the countries which BEARR supports. He has been raising money for different charities and visiting some of BEARR’s grant recipients – past and present – along the way. Whilst …

Alison Cameron got in touch with BEARR recently to offer her services as a volunteer, renewing contacts going back decades.  She has been involved with Belarus for most of that time. We asked her to tell us about her latest project.  This year is the 30th anniversary of my involvement with Belarus, a link that has weathered storms both political and personal including my life-changing experience …

Dr Lipman’s memoirs of his time living in and working at the British Embassy in Moscow will be of interest to anyone who also experienced those fascinating years of the 1980s and 1990s in Russia. Dr Lipman was the Embassy’s Medical Attaché at the time that Jill Braithwaite, wife of the British Ambassador, proposed setting …

The BEARR Trust is very grateful to Dr Harald Lipman and his fellow trustees for choosing BEARR to receive Tushinskaya Trust’s residual assets following the Charity Commission’s recent approval of Tushinskaya Trust’s dissolution.  Tushinskaya Trust was established in 1988 by Dr Harald and Nahid Lipman, whilst Dr Lipman was Medical Attaché at the British Embassy in Moscow. Its aim throughout its years …

BEARR is always delighted to welcome new volunteers, who play such a great role in our activities. Here are two of our newest recruits.  Holly Battye  Holly graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Russian and French and has spent a number of years studying, working and volunteering in Russia, primarily with a focus on translation work. Most …

Grantee: Tolerspace, Kyiv, Ukraine  Project: to create a graphic novel for 10-13-year-old girls, and training of peer-guides in interactive use of this to raise awareness of violence.   One of Tolerspace’s peer-guides, 17-year-old Olga Sidelnikova, describes her involvement in the project:   On a sunny September Saturday ten teenage girls and two psychologists gathered to discuss personal safety, protection from bullying and harassment. …