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Social Inclusion through Women's Organizations
Duration of the case:
NGO Civil Courage was founded on 1999 and this organization
will continue pursuing towards its goals until balanced society is achieved.
Prepared by: Astrid Hindriks
NGO Civil Courage - member of NGO Roundtable, Estonia
May 2006

Abstract

By the year 1999 Estonia had developed expectancy for cleaving a society as a whole:

1. As a result of economical ultra liberalism and concentration of the capital there emerged so called elite;
2. The historical memory of a nation was offended by the fact that economical elite and elite of the occupation where actually the same people;
3. There emerged an attitude "every man for himself ";
4. Human resource was not taken as a capital;
5. In the society there was well developed syndrome of success with all the features of consumer society;
6. Social group that had the worst living conditions where families with children;
7. The values of the society were changing and unfortunately there was no place for children and family as re-creators of the society.

Under these conditions was founded NGO Civil Courage and Pärnu Women's Roundtable. The essence of this cooperation was:

1. To draw attention to the indications of unbalanced society and the hazardousness of it;
2. To bring out the most acute problems in the society;
3. To find solutions hand in hand with legislators to balance the society.

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