More from Disposable People by Kevin Bales.

Future and Hope for Mauritania
The movement of slavery from rural areas to the cities is the key to liberation. With more population, more information flows. Slaves can learn that other ways of life exist, and organizations like SOS Slaves and El Hor can reach out to slaves and ex-slaves. In the city, slaves see the lives of ex-slaves and Afro-Mauritanians and can know that freedom is possible.

SOS Slaves and El Hor are the key to educating and reaching out to slaves. “Though their leaders are arrested and imprisoned, though their meetings are broken up and their publications censored, they are not giving up. Many of the leaders and members tof both these organizations are ex-slaves, and like Fredrick Douglass or Harriet Tubman they are in the fight to the end.”

Pray for:

• Meaningful foreign aid and debt relief.
• Building of infrastructure to support growth of a free economy.
• Organizations and government to enact meaningful, not just legal, freedom.
• Education for poor and enslaved people.

Next up from Disposable People: Brazil.