Category: Small Grants
Project Report: Integration through Creativity in Ukraine
SGS 2024 Grantee: Association of Community Initiatives Support “ASSA”, Kharkiv, Ukraine Project: New Kharkiv residents. Integration through creativity The city of Kharkiv is located 30 kilometres from the Russian border. Almost every day its residents experience shelling. Despite this, the city is home to approximately 1.2 million residents, and internally displaced persons from settlements in the …
Project Report: Arts and crafts foster integration in Armenia
SGS 2024 Grantee: Contribution to Women and Children, operating in the Tavush region of Armenia Project: Economic Stability and the Integration of Displaced Young People and Women from Nagorno-Karabakh through Arts and Crafts The project was implemented between October 2024 and January 2025. The beneficiaries were 10 women forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh and 10 socially-vulnerable local …
Project Report: Stronger Together: How Creativity and Mutual Support bring people together
SGS 2024 Grantee: Tvory Dobropillia, with Age of Happiness, Ukraine Project: Enabling displaced women and elderly people to integrate into their new communities. Despite fatigue and anxious challenges, Ukrainians continue to find ways to be together and help one another. From August to December 2024, with the support of the BEARR Trust, three public organisations from …
Project Report: Psychological rescue: how taking care of mental health helps people move on
SGS 2024 Strand B Grantee: Association of Mothers and Wives of Defenders of Ukraine Project: To help women overcome stress, prevent emotional burnout, and regain self-confidence. War changes the lives of all of us, but those who have lost loved ones or worry about their relatives on the front line every day are particularly emotionally affected. …
Project Report: The voice of Ukrainians with hearing impairments
SGS 2024 Grantee: Educational Assistance Project: “A world of silence during the war in Ukraine”. About 30,600 people with hearing impairments live in Ukraine, including children, adults and old people, as well as internally displaced persons with hearing impairments. In terms of their integration into society, people with hearing impairments are the most difficult category of …
The BEARR Trust Small Grants Scheme 2025
In 2023-4 the focus of much of BEARR’s work has been on Ukraine and Moldova, with the Ukraine Emergency Appeal at the forefront of activities. This effort will continue in 2025, but the main Small Grants Scheme will cover most of the countries with which we work. We invited potential applicants to send project proposals …
Project Report: Volunteering Academy 2024
SGS 2024 Strand B Grantee: Two CSOs in Ukraine Project: Training and Resilience Programme “Volunteering Academy 2024”. The CSOs implemented their training and resilience programme “Volunteering Academy 2024” under Strand B of the BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme. 30 employees and volunteers took 10 in-person classes lasting 6 hours with highly professional teachers and practitioners and …
Project Report: How Best to Support Children with Disabilities?
SGS 2023 Grantee: Taldykorgan Regional Women’s Support Center, Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Project: Assessment of funding and services for children with disabilities and their accessibility. Here is their report: “Research – Assessment of Needs for the Allocation and Use of Budget Funds for Children with Disabilities” was carried out by the NGO Taldykorgan during the period February-July 2024. …
Project Report: Cross-border assistance to migrant workers and their families
SGS 2023 Grantee: “Korgan-M”, Shymkent, Kazakhstan, in partnership with “Sogdiana”, Uzbekistan, Navoi region, Uchkuduk city. Project: Cross-border support and consultations for migrant workers and their families on the right to work and receive medical, social, legal and other assistance in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Here is their report: The project was implemented from September 2023 to February …
Project Report: Two mountain passes, seven hours in the car; a shared mission but separated by distance
SGS 2023 Grantee: “Gulrukhsor”, Khujand, with “Ghamkhori”, Bokhtar, Tajikistan Project: To amplify the voices of women suffering from domestic violence and build NGO capacity Here is their report: In Tajikistan there are two grassroots organisations that are the leaders in providing services to women victims of domestic violence. One is Women’s Center “Gulrukhsor” (blossoming face), based …
