Project description
“Gambling – everything you need to know about addiction” is a new project of our Foundation, which we have just started together with the Bridge of Friendship Kartlosi Foundation from Georgia.
The project will include an intensive training programme for Georgian secondary school teachers on the prevention of youth addiction to gambling. The programme will be prepared by Polish experts in cooperation with Georgian experts, so that it corresponds to the Georgian socio-cultural situation. The training of 16 teachers from three regions in Georgia where the risk of gambling addiction among youth is growing faster than in the other regions, will take place at the end of September in Kutaisi, Georgia.
The outcome of the project will be the introduction of an addiction prevention component to the education curriculum in Georgian secondary schools. A publication and a sub-website will be produced presenting the training programme and collecting best practices of work in the prevention of gambling addiction and youth addiction in general. In the course of the project, we will carry out large-scale activities promoting the project results on the Internet.
For the project we are collaborating with the Bridge of Friendship Kartlosi Foundation. The organisation was founded in 2006 and initially dealt with the Ossetian-Georgian conflict and carried out activities to bring the two sides closer together. Over time, activities expanded to include non-formal education activities - working with schools, teachers and local authorities to increase youth participation in social and political life.
Project co-financed by funds from the Polish-American Freedom Foundation within the framework of the RITA programme – Region in Transition implemented by the Education for Democracy Foundation.