’Gambling – everything you need to know about addiction’ is a project of our Foundation, which we have realised together with the Bridge of Friendship Kartlosi Foundation from Georgia.
The project included an intensive training programme for Georgian secondary school teachers on the prevention of youth addiction to gambling. The programme was 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, took place at the end of September 2024 in Kutaisi, Georgia.
We ware implementing the project in cooperation with our Georgian partner, 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 (joint newspaper and radio, mediation, joint projects). Over time, activities have expanded to include non-formal education activities – working with schools, teachers and local authorities to increase youth participation in social and political life. Kartlosi is also involved in promoting peaceful ways of conflict resolution among young people in Georgia – workshops and trainings on negotiation, peer mediation, and has been working on strengthening school democracy and student participation in Georgia since 2013.
The coordinator of the project „Gambling – everything you need to know about addiction” from the Georgian side was Lela Mazmishvili: programme director of Kartlosi, creates and coordinates social, educational projects, coordinator of international programmes (Erasmus+). She also works on social media communication and is an experienced trainer in the field of human rights, anti-discrimination, implementation of public/social action.
Anna Osowska – Rembecka and Beata Bartosiewicz
The Polish experts that we invited to implement the project “Gambling – everything you need to know about addiction” are Anna Osowska – Rembecka and Beata Bartosiewicz. Both have extensive experience in developing addiction prevention training programmes and are experienced trainers.
Anna Osowska-Rembecka – doctor of social sciences, expert in first-line support for victims of domestic violence at the Women’s Rights Centre Foundation, community therapist at the TOGO Centre for the Development of Your Potential in Warsaw. Academic lecturer at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw and at the Pedagogium – Higher School of Social Sciences in Warsaw and the Higher School of Banking.
Member of the Programme Council of the Congress of Women, social activist. Co-author of guides on violence at home and at work. She conducts workshops in the area of addiction prevention, including gambling addiction, in the field of domestic violence prevention and dealing with aggression. She works with children and young people from threatened and dysfunctional families, in particular those experiencing or witnessing domestic violence, at risk of demoralisation and experiencing severe stress as a result of inadequately exercised parental authority, as well as with young people with adaptation difficulties in the school, local and peer environment, difficulties related to the lack of ability to control aggression, addicted to psychoactive substances, computer games and gambling.
Beata Bartosiewicz – Master’s degree in pedagogy, psychotherapist working in the integrative-systemic approach in the second year of the 4-year psychotherapeutic training at the Dialog School of Psychotherapy. Certified specialist in domestic violence prevention, aggression replacement educator, specialist in developmental activities for adolescents in relation to the risk of behavioural addictions. She has completed numerous trainings and courses including a study of domestic violence prevention, Solution Focused Therapy 1st and 2nd degree, TSR – working with couples. She has also completed training in motivational dialogue and uses it in her work with addicted people. In addition, she has completed interpersonal and intrapsychic training. She has more than 15 years of experience working with children and young people from families at risk of social exclusion and dysfunctional families, in particular those experiencing or witnessing domestic violence.
Contributors to the publication: Megi Bibiluri; Ada Szulc
Editor: Megi Bibiluri
Graphic design : Shalva Muradashvili
Gori 2024
License: Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Photo: Fot. Bridge of Friendship Kartlosi, Justyna Domasłowska-Szulc
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
