--- title: "Myanmar" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/myanmar/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Asia-Pacific · Where we work # Myanmar How Not For Sale works alongside communities in Myanmar to address root causes and build lasting change. [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/myanmar/?campaign=770665) Myanmar · People ## Operating in Crisis Not For Sale’s [people](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) work in Myanmar launched in 2025 as a program country. Myanmar is in the grip of compounding crises: civil war since the 2021 military coup, unregulated rare earth and gold mining in rebel-controlled territories, and the rapid expansion of cyber-scam compounds where [trafficked](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) people from across Southeast Asia are forced to run online fraud operations at industrial scale. ### What We Found Myanmar’s lawless mining zones, particularly in Shan and Kachin states, mix armed groups, informal labor, and smuggling in conditions that produce debt bondage and sexual exploitation. [Toxic rare earth mining](https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/1500-thais-protest-myanmar-rare-earth-pollution/) is poisoning rivers that flow into [Thailand](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/thailand/), contaminating the Kok River and threatening farming, fishing, and tourism communities across the border. [Ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) and [trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) operate as a single system here: environmental destruction displaces communities into the same labor markets where traffickers recruit. Meanwhile, cyber-scam slavery compounds, where victims are imprisoned and forced to conduct online fraud under armed guard, have become one of the fastest-growing forms of [modern-day slavery](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) in the world. Myanmar’s border zones with Thailand and China are among the largest operating centers. Not For Sale’s presence in Myanmar connects directly to the [Thailand](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/thailand/) program, where many of the children at Baan Kru Nam originate from Myanmar, making the two programs two parts of the same corridor. ### What We Are Building Not For Sale is establishing survivor support, community awareness, and safe economic alternatives in communities targeted by traffickers along the Myanmar-Thailand corridor. Impact figures are being gathered as the program takes shape. [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/donate/) [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/myanmar/?campaign=770665) #### At a glance Region Asia-Pacific Focus Rescue, Safe homes, Education Since 2012 [All projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) #### From the news [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/) [What Is the Difference Between Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/modern-slavery-vs-human-trafficking/) [How to Help Fight Climate Change in 10 Practical Ways Ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/how-to-help-fight-climate-change/) [All news →](https://wearenotforsale.org/news/) ## More projects in Asia-Pacific [View all](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) Active Asia-Pacific [Australia](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/australia/) View project → Past Asia-Pacific [Cambodia](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/cambodia/) View project → Past Asia-Pacific [India](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/india/) View project → Active Asia-Pacific [Japan](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/japan/) View project → Active Asia-Pacific [Laos](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/laos/) View project → ## Help us build freedom, one community at a time. [Donate](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/myanmar/?campaign=770665) [Explore all projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/)