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The Compass: Gambling: A Sure Bet? : Gambling: A Sure Bet? Kenya

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Gambling: A Sure Bet? Kenya

21/04/2021 GMT

Gambling: A Sure Bet?

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Dr Heather Wardle meets the students gambling on football to try and earn a living

Dr Heather Wardle meets the students gambling on football to try and earn a living.

Jonah is a university student, and a gambler. For him it is the only way he  can earn a living. He explains why there are so few opportunities for young Kenyans like him and why betting on foreign football matches has become such an attractive and easy way to make money to fund his university studies. Gambling behaviour expert, Dr Heather Wardle, wants tougher laws on gambling but she wonders how that might impact the University students who need the money they earn from betting.

Producer: Lydia Thomas

(Photo: Jonah betting on the Premier League with his friends)

The Compass: Gambling: A Sure Bet? 

Gambling: A Sure Bet? 

As online gambling’s popularity grows, we investigate who wins, and who loses.

In this new three part series for “The Compass” gambling behavior expert Dr Heather Wardle looks at three countries: Kenya, Albania and the USA and inves-tigates how the growing popularity of online gambling is affecting gamblers.

Dr Wardle believes gambling should be strictly regulated and online gambling is having a particularly troubling effect on young people. Modern technology means gamblers can access betting apps on their smartphones and Dr Wardle worries this is normalising gambling as an everyday activity, instead of it just being an “entertainment.”

But gambling is having a much more complicated effect on people than she first thought. In each programme Dr Wardle asks someone from that country to demonstrate why gambling is so important to them. Ultimately, Dr Wardle wants to find out what the safest way is to protect gamblers from health problems caused by betting, but still allow the communities that benefit from the industry to continue to operate.

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