Mauritania

Project Educate

The Africa Peace Tour invites you to donate to Project Educate; this is an initiative to provide small sums of funds to educate slave and former slave children in Mauritania. The Africa Peace Tour has joined with a major Mauritanian based anti slavery organization to raise funds to pay school fees and food allowances for selected slave and former slave children. The effort will be coordinated by Moctar Teyeb of the Mauritanian Educational Fund and monitored by two independent consultants. Regular reports of how much has been raised, when it was sent to Mauritania, and its subsequent use (meaning the name of the student whose fees were paid) will be posted monthly on this web site. Funds should be sent to the Africa Peace Tour – Project Educate. We have calculated that it will take $15.00 per month per child. This includes administrative cost and transferal commissions.
When we receive your donation we will issue a receipt acknowledging your donation. The receipt will include our tax exempt number. The two children on this page will be the first recipients of grants. Please appreciate the fact that Mauritanian based anti-slavery groups are not allowed to receive funds from outside the country. We are trying to be sensitive to the dangers Project Educate poses to activist inside the country. When you donate we will provide you with information on how your funds will be transferred and as much information about the activist as possible.

            
   
         
 

Information

Anti-Slavery Groups

    
         
 

Modern Anti-Slavery Bibliography

 

    

Despite the legal abolition of slavery in Mauritania in 1981, and its prohibition within Mauritania's own Constitution and national legislation, there is no evidence to suggest that practical steps have been taken to ensure its abolition in practice. Human rights abuses related to slavery persist in Mauritania, although the government denies their existence.

Amnesty International - Nov 2002

    
Mauritanian Update
        
           
Slavery World Wide
        
Slavery has long been the ignored step child of the West's human rights establishment. The victims of this blind spot are the world's 27 million slaves.        
           
 
   
 

Information on Project Educate-Mauritania

Contact: jherman@africapeacetour.com - Tel and Fax 215/769-0557-