Pann Nann Ein is a local foundation dedicated to helping persons with disabilities to have a full life through engaging in creative livelihoods. The showroom offers travelers the chance to buy beautiful paper products in a wide range of textures, colors, and styles.

Although you could buy some deliciously locally-made honey from this non-profit collective, the bee-keeping tours and workshops are fascinating and unusual — you won't find anything else like it in Myanmar. This social enterprise has taught farmers in nearby villages how to cultivate healthy and thriving bee colonies.

Pomelo is a not for profit social enterprise and fair trade shop that sells a range of Burmese boutique handicrafts, made by Burmese people from disadvantaged communities.

Sanon is a social enterprise located in Nyaung U, Bagan that runs as a Burmese and Tapas restaurant. Providing vocational training to marginalised youth in the Burmese community, the restaurant gives opportunity for work to those in the training programs.

Sprouting Seeds cafe and bakery using locally-sourced food and offering a haven of fresh homemade baked goods, ice cream, veggie dishes, and delicious meals in a traditional old Kalaw house. A portion of proceeds go toward the cafe's social mission: to support disadvantaged youth with training and support.

Take a unique tour in Bagan, Myanmar with a unique company where the entire structure of the tour emphasizes an "un-tour" experience of sorts. The organization "offers tours in Bagan for independent-minded people who don’t usually hire a guide when traveling." In addition to classic tours of the ruins, the company offers has an impressive list of crafts workshops and innovative tour products.

Uncharted Horizons Myanmar is a social enterprise providing off-the-beaten-track tours of Yangon and the Chin State. The tours provide an insight into real Burmese culture, while also supporting marginalised communities in Myanmar.

A lovely small spot by the lake where you can read and enjoy local coffee from plantations located in Shan highlands, juices, vegetarian food, and more. The Veranda Youth Community Cafe has a social mission attached and is a meeting place of likeminded locals and travelers.

The Yangon Bakehouse is a social enterprise dedicated to creating job opportunities, skills development and fair wages to disadvantaged women. The women funnel profits right back into the business and have created an entire program to help women in their country develop the life and work skills to succeed.

Take a fascinating walking tour of Yangon with a trained tour guide who will lead you into the heart of old Yangon with stories and anecdotes from its colorful and layered history — travel from the city's earliest beginnings to the modern day.