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Stage I: Stability & Safety

Allowing survivors and at-risk populations to meet their basic needs is essential in stabilizing individuals who have endured a traumatic past. Stage I involves providing adequate shelter, food, health care and legal services to create a safe environment capable of fostering opportunities for a stable future.

Stage II: Life Skills & Job Training

Once the livelihood of at-risk communities can be sustained, investing in goods and services that create opportunities for the world's poor is critical in inclusive social and economic growth. Not For Sale believes that equipping at-risk communities with basic skills will prepare individuals for sustainable long term opportunities. Stage II seeks to provide targeted populations with formal and non-formal education and vocational training.

Stage III: Dignified Work & Sustainable Future

To prevent and protect vulnerable communities from human trafficking, Not For Sale promotes economic opportunities that lead to long-term employment and viable incomes for at-risk communities. Stage III seeks to create jobs for survivors through the Not For Sale social enterprise models either by incubating business or collaborating with industry leaders who model best practices in supply chain responsibility.

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Project Overview

It is both a matter of tragedy and providence that wealthy Chinese investors aim to turn the area around Kru Nam’s village into a Vegas-style resort. Within ten miles would be casinos, a golf course, resorts, a brewery and major roads. All of these activities will surely drive the sex trafficking of children and women. NFS is proactively engaged in buying property that Kru Nam and her kids can use to grow crops and plant a protective forest, acting as a security shield against these dens of iniquity while providing income and vocational skills to the children. The land will include an organic farm and teak tree agro-forestry project. We need your help to buy and develop this land to create a sustainable future for the kids of Thailand.

Background

Not For Sale supports the work of modern-day abolitionist Kru Nam to provide emergency and long-term assistance for 125 street children and youth to meet their basic needs and equip them to protect themselves against exploitation. Once taken off the street and placed into Kru Nam’s care, the children receive, usually for the first time, a stable living environment, meals, health-care, the opportunity to go to school, and vocational skills that equip the children for a healthy future.

Since 2007, Not For Sale has supported the work of Kru Nam by building three dormitories, a medical clinic, a safe house, a basketball court, and providing seed funding for sustainable vocational training, as well as $1.9 million worth of medical supplies. In June 2011, Not For Sale completed the construction of an additional dorm expected to house nearly 180 children.

The vast majority of street children living in Northern Thailand come from the Burmese-Thai border at the busy market city of Mae Sai. These children are born into minority tribal groups and the Burmese government doesn’t consider them to be Burmese citizens. Once in Thailand, these children are considered “stateless” people by the Thai government and are denied identification cards. Native Thai tribal people groups are also considered “stateless” and are not eligible to receive government-provided education, health services, or employment. These marginalized populations face a variety of other serious problems like becoming involved in the trafficking of drugs, illicit goods and people.