--- title: "Bulgaria" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/bulgaria/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Europe · Where we work # Bulgaria How Not For Sale works alongside communities in Bulgaria to address root causes and build lasting change. [Support an active project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) Bulgaria · Social Innovation ## Farmhopping: Fair Supply Chains as Prevention Not For Sale’s [social innovation](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-social-innovation/) work in Bulgaria tackles [trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) at its root cause: economic desperation. Bulgaria is a significant source and transit country for trafficking within Europe, with rural poverty and Roma communities especially exposed. The answer is not just services, it is dignified livelihoods. By the numbers 789 People reached through Farmhopping and enterprise work ### What We Built Not For Sale co-founded Farmhopping in 2012 as a founding equity investor. Farmhopping is an organic farm-to-consumer platform connecting over 200 small organic farms directly with consumers, building supply chains rooted in transparency and creating dignified livelihoods in rural communities that would otherwise have few economic alternatives. A UK expansion has followed the success of the Bulgarian model. ### Why This Matters Communities that have transparent, fair economic participation are communities where traffickers have less leverage. Farmhopping is one demonstration of the [Impact Stack](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-social-innovation/) principle: when you climb the value chain until communities at the bottom have real leverage and ownership, you change what trafficking can offer them. [Support an active project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) #### At a glance Region Europe Focus Aftercare, Vocational training, Advocacy Since 2013 [All projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) #### From the news [Preventing Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking of Children and Young People Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/preventing-child-trafficking-modern-slavery/) [Fast Fashion: The Human and Environmental Price of Cheap Clothing Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/fast-fashion-human-environmental-cost/) [What Are the 5 Ps of Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/5-ps-human-trafficking/) [Which Organizations Are Fighting Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/organizations-fighting-human-trafficking/) [All news →](https://wearenotforsale.org/news/) ## More projects in Europe [View all](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) Active Europe [Italy](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/italy/) View project → Active Europe [Netherlands](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/netherlands/) View project → Past Europe [Romania](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/romania/) View project → Past Europe [Sweden](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/sweden/) View project → Active Europe [United Kingdom](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/) View project → ## Help us build freedom, one community at a time. [Donate](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/bulgaria/?campaign=770665) [Explore all projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/)