Category: Newsletter
Project Report: How seeds became a path to self-employment
SGS 2024 Grantee: Voznesensk Community Foundation in partnership with the Agency for Economic Development (AED), Ukraine Project: New Agrarians: self-employment of IDPs through agricultural production Despite its modest budget, this initiative, supported by the BEARR Trust’s Small Grants Scheme, demonstrated impressive results and proved that quality seeds and knowledge can be powerful tools to support people …
Project Report: Beyond Drama: How Dialogue and Support Changed Lives in Odesa
SGS 2024 Grantee: Ukrainian Sisters Are Kidfriendly, Odesa, Ukraine Project: Joint Adaptation of Mothers and Children In 2024–2025, with support from The BEARR Trust, our foundation implemented this project for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Odesa. What began as a simple goal—to help women and children feel more supported in a new city—quickly evolved into something …
Project Report: Safe Spaces for Women in Wartime
SGS 2024 Grantee: Country of Goodwill and Human Rights Bureau ‘We are’, Berezan, Kyiv region, Ukraine Project: Recovery and Resilience: Strengthening the cohesion of vulnerable groups, their potential and resilience in the context of the ongoing war A Solution That Offers Grounding: How Mutual Support Communities Became Safe Spaces for Women During Wartime Ukraine remains under …
Project Report: Empowering the Displaced in Georgia
SGS 2024 Grantee: Association Imedi, Zugdidi, Georgia Project: Engagement of Displaced People for Change In a modest office in Zugdidi, the team behind the project has been quietly leading a transformation. With support from The BEARR Trust and its Small Grants Scheme, and fueled by determination and a deep sense of duty, the local NGO Association …
BEARR Newsletter April 2025
Art therapy sessions for IDPs in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners April 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In this edition of our newsletter, we announce the launch of the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, which continues BEARR’s support for local organisations in Ukraine through a longer-term recovery approach. To mark the launch, we invite you to …
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 …
Book Review: The Small States Club: How Small Smart States Can Save the World
The Small States Club is partly a memoir and in larger part a manifesto arguing that small, ‘smart’ states have a vital role to play in addressing the complex global challenges of the twenty-first century – or ‘saving the world’, as the title puts it. The author, Dr Armen Sarkissian, draws on an impressive breadth …
Report: Dr Armen Sarkissian talk – March 10, 2025
Report by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne – March 12, 2025 Talk topic: The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World Speaker: Dr Armen Sarkissian Followed by a Q&A discussion chaired by Helen Goodman, BEARR Trustee The BEARR Trust was pleased to host a talk this spring by Dr Armen Sarkissian, former …
BEARR Newsletter February 2025
Pottery classes for children in eastern Ukraine organised by BEARR partners February 2025 Dear friends and colleagues, In the first 2025 edition of our newsletter, we are pleased to share some important BEARR updates with you. We introduce our new Chairman and announce a call for applications for the voluntary role of Honorary Treasurer. We provide an update on the …
