BEARR News
Project report: Baku Volunteer Center, Azerbaijan
Grantee: Baku-Volunteer Center, AzerbaijanProject: “The plight of youth migrants during the COVID-19 and the impact of the pandemic on circular migration in Azerbaijan” The Baku Volunteer Center implemented a project called “The situation of young migrants during the COVID-19 period and the results of the impact of the pandemic on migration in Azerbaijan” supported by …
Emergency Appeal for Ukraine and Moldova – now closed
From February 2022, in response to Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, The BEARR Trust raised funds through its Emergency Appeal to support small civil society and voluntary organisations helping displaced people, refugees, and other vulnerable groups in Ukraine and Moldova. In just over two years, we raised over £570,000, donated or pledged by more than …
2022 CSO Survey – Results
In February 2022, BEARR launched a survey to facilitate the sharing of ideas, best practices and innovative approaches to working with vulnerable groups suffering from social isolation due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the survey were to later form the basis of a webinar on the same topic. However, this work was …
BEARR Newsletter: December 2022
One of BEARR’s partners in western Ukraine continues to run art therapy workshops despite being hit by electricity blackouts. They are providing displaced children with a safe space to relax and play, keeping them distracted from the targeted shelling and giving them a place to stay warm this winter. 15 December 2022 Season’s greetings from BEARR! Dear …
The BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme 2023
It has been part of BEARR’s long-term mission to foster cooperation and partnerships, in the belief that this is fundamental to the operation of successful civil society organisations (CSOs). For 2023, as part of Strand A of the scheme, we invited applications for up to £4,000 for joint projects that promote the long-term partnership between two …
Report: The BEARR Trust Autumn Lecture
Putin’s War: What’s the Endgame? Ross Gill, BEARR TrusteeDecember 2022 A former senior editor at The Economist, and now an expert commentator on Eastern and Central Europe at The Times, Edward Lucas has for many years warned of the danger that Vladimir Putin’s regime presents to its own people and its neighbourhood. In The New …
Project report: Insan-Leilek, Kyrgyzstan
Grantee: Insan-Leilek, KyrgyzstanProject: Protecting the Labour Rights of Vulnerable Migrant Women According to the National Statistics Committee of Kyrgyzstan, more than a million Kyrgyz citizens are in Russia as labour migrants. More than 40% of them are women. Most of the migrant women are employed in the service sector, such as cleaning, housekeeping, nursing, babysitting, …
Project report: Gurdofarid, Tajikistan
Grantee: Gurdofarid, TajikistanProject: “Support Centre for Migrants” – sewing workshops and business training for migrants and their families Unemployment is one of the main challenges facing our citizens. It is also one of the main factors driving migration abroad by working age Tajik men. Experts say that, along with low levels of education, unemployment is …
Report: The BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2022
War in Ukraine: The Civil Society Response Читайте українською мовою тут. Читайте на русском языке здесь. You can find a recording of the conference in the original audio, in English, in Ukrainian and in Russian on our YouTube channel. The BEARR Trust Annual Conference for 2022 on the theme “War in Ukraine: The Civil Society …
Project report: New Generation NGO, Armenia
Grantee: New Generation NGO, Armenia (NGNGO)Project: “Ensuring Social Well-Being and Empowerment of Migrants’ Families” The main goal of our project on “Ensuring the Social Well-Being and Empowerment of Migrants’ Families” was to support the families, particularly the wives and children of Armenian labour migrants, through social assistance and capacity-building training sessions. The project beneficiaries were …
