Institute of Society Development

The Institute of Society Development in the activity carries out the important social functions in a society, organising thematic actions on the basis of social projects. The basic an orientation of actions and projects it is concentrated on the prevention of game dependence among youth which pass in the Estonian and Russian languages.

The Institute of Society Development plans in 2009-2013 together with leading experts in the field of the prevention of game dependence and as Movement of antikasino, at support local self-management and the state to spend a number of seminars in educational institutions, the youth centres and social houses of Tallinn and in the different regional’s of Estonia.

It is known that game dependence is the most serious epidemics and acts of nature manage to a society much more expensively. Game dependence steals from people time of a high-grade life, energy and health, becomes the psychological reason of family tragedies. Game dependence represents the strongest chains keeping human reason in shameful captivity.

Today in Estonia is about 60 thousand of dependent and to 90 thousand of actively playing casinos, and in connection with an economic crisis their number grows. Also it is registered about hundred suicides because of dependence.

There are about 80 casinos (2007 - 190) in Estonia today, and from them in Tallinn nearby 40. According to the polls spent by firm Turuuuringud and Faktum in average 70 % of the population of the country and of inhabitants of capital oppose a casino.

The additional information:
phone: +372 53413122, e-mail: info@instityte.eu