Fighting Slavery in Mauritania

A Chicago, Illinois resident, Sean Tenner graduated from Georgetown University and holds a bachelor of arts in American government. Sean Tenner is the president of KNI Communications, where he assists non-profit organizations in advocacy campaigns. He is also passionate about fighting and ending slavery in Mauritania.

Slavery still exists in communities and countries throughout the world, and it persists as a giant issue in Mauritania. The Abolition Institute, alongside the U.S. State Department, funded a trip to Mauritania to further its goals of eradicating slavery from the country. The Abolition Institute and its partners have generated over $5 million for programs that aim to erase slavery from existence once and for all. The mayor of Forest Park, Rory Hoskins was a part of the 15-person group that went to Mauritania in West Africa.

Although Mauritania abolished slavery back in 1981, slavery became a crime only in 2007, and to this day, experts believe there are over 90,000 human beings still enslaved. The Americans who went on the trip followed also health, safety and COVID protocols.

The Obama Legacy Initiatives Raised

A graduate of Georgetown University, Sean Tenner is the president of KNI Communications in Chicago. He is also a co-founder at the Abolition Institute, which aims to end slavery in Mauritania. Sean Tenner supports and participates in events facilitated by the Obama Legacy Initiative (OLI), which supports urban gardens and farms.

OLI is helping people grow their own plants and vegetables. To do that, OLI provides people with raised garden beds that can facilitate growth. In this way, people who do not have the means to access healthy food can grow it themselves. Either amateur or professional gardeners can have an easier time gardening and growing food using garden beds as they have good drainage and warm soil. People can choose from a wide range of beds depending on their needs and goals and the specific plant they want to garden and grow.

The distribution and provision of garden beds by OLI were achieved mainly through fundraisers and sales. OLI made an auction at the Victory over Hunger event, where it sold raised beds and donated the money to disadvantaged communities. With the money made from the auction and fundraisers, OLI also offered plenty of garden beds to people to defeat food insecurity.