Vietnam · People
Rescue, Reintegration, and the Long Road Home
Not For Sale’s people work in Vietnam focuses on child rescue and reintegration, finding children who have been trafficked, separated from their families, or forced onto the streets, and providing the sustained support they need to recover, reconnect, and rebuild their lives.
What We Found
Vietnam is a source country for trafficking in persons, particularly children. Children from poor rural families are trafficked into forced labor in factories, agriculture, and domestic servitude, or across borders into China, Cambodia, and Laos for exploitation. Street children in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City face constant recruitment by criminal networks. Many are separated from their families by deception, debt, or violence.
Climate stress in the Mekong Delta, including salinization, crop loss, and flooding, is pushing rural families deeper into poverty and closer to the recruiters who promise work that turns into captivity. The ecocide crisis in Southeast Asia is a direct driver of trafficking vulnerability in Vietnam.
What We Set Out to Do
Rescue trafficked and at-risk children, reunite them with their families where safe, and provide the long-term housing, education, legal support, and emotional care needed for genuine recovery, not just survival.
What We Have Built
Child rescue and recovery: Not For Sale Vietnam’s partner team has rescued children from trafficking, street exploitation, and forced labor across the country. Each child receives individualized support including safe housing, medical care, counseling, legal assistance, and educational enrollment.
Family reintegration: Where safe and appropriate, Not For Sale works to reunite children with their families, providing family support, monitoring, and follow-up to ensure the child does not return to the conditions that made them vulnerable.
Prevention and outreach: Community-based prevention programs reach over 3,300 people in at-risk communities, providing awareness, early intervention, and pathways to support before trafficking occurs.
Legal advocacy: Not For Sale Vietnam has supported legal cases resulting in the prosecution of traffickers, an important deterrent in a country where prosecution rates remain low.
