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U’SAgain bins in Madison, Wisconsin, were placed illegally, the Wisconsin State journal reports (29th July 2010). Messages to us at www.tvindalert.com indicate that illegal placing of bins is a frequent occurrence with all Teachers Group ‘charity’ clothing operations (Planet Aid, Gaia, Green World, Humana People-to-People, DAPP-UK) in many different countries.
Planet Aid bins placed illegally in the UK
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Our revised and updated dossier on the Trayton Group in Shanghai, and its associated companies in the United States and elsewhere. The Trayton Group is run by Teachers Group member Simon Lichtenberg, and manufactures sofas which are sold in within China and all over the world. Lichtenberg has denied his company is a ‘Teachers Group company’, but admits passing more than $1m a year to Tvind.
Do timber and raw materials for Chinese furniture manufacture come from the Teachers Group’s controversial forest plantation in Brazil – acquired in the 1990s and the subject of subsequent police inquiries ?
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The Teachers Group is now selling its own Chinese-made furniture and other goods in Mozambique through two stores in Maputo, ‘Sofa City‘ and ‘Office City‘, according to an informant. The sofas and furniture for sale are made by Trayton, the Teachers Group furniture factory in Shanghai run by the very senior TG member Simon Lichtenberg. Sofa City is believed to be a part of Teachers Group company CATLINK (China-Africa Trade Link), a TG import-export company registered in China.
More information on Sofa City, Maputo
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Help! – due to a lack of any staff or resources, it is proving impossible to keep the site adequately updated, despite a torrent of news and information pouring in. There are now more than 30 items waiting to be posted, including important stories about the death of a volunteer in a car crash in Norway, Humana in Australia, and a new crime novel based on Amdi Petersen. I cannot keep up. If you can offer help to update and maintain this site, please contact me. However, IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEND IT all the same to feedback@tvindalert.com and I will keep it on file it until help is available.
Good news: through the Aid Alert Foundation, I have appointed four London University development studies students as Interns to carry out research on the Humana People to People network and on aid abuse issues generally. All four are undergraduate or postgraduate students at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies and will be carrying out work experience as volunteers. The results will be published on Tvind Alert or Aid Alert and press released to the media. Aid Alert is still looking for a voluntary part-time fundraiser and a webmaster. For more information see www.aidalert.org.uk.
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Activists have spray-painted Humana boxes in Berlin with a stencilled message, ‘Who is Amdi Peterson? Please read up BEFORE you contribute!’ Anonymous informants have sent us pictures of boxes bearing the graffito, which apparently started appearing in 2008. Humana cleans the boxes and attaches a note claiming the vandals are being prosecuted – but we have not been told of any prosecutions, and the stencils keep appearing. Tvind Alert has nothing to do with this shocking vandalism….and couldn’t possibly endorse such outrageous lawbreaking……but we agree it is a very good question.
CCTG (Campus California TG) college has closed and the building is up for sale. Local informants have told us there was a severe flood in spring 2010, which led to the school, in Etna, California, being evacuated. The building is for sale at $229,000. The CCTG website is silent on this event and we await any further information about whether CCTG will relocate.
Dutch Government refuses Humana funding
Humana Holland applications for public funding have been turned down by the Dutch government. The decision represents a U-turn by the government, which sparked a row in 2007 when it authorised a donation of more than €8 million of public money to Humana, despite the organisation’s poor reputation. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has turned down a new application for €39 million over four years made jointly by Humana Holland and two other Dutch development organisations.
How the European clothes scam worked
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New information from Bulgaria reveals further details of Humana People-to-People’s clothes trade between Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa.
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Have you ever wondered what happens to the clothes you dump in the charity bin?
Planet Aid bins on a street in Brooklyn, NY
This website gives one answer. This is an exposure of one very large ‘charity’, which collects clothes all over the world ‘for Africa’ – and then sells them through a maze of privately-owned companies, to pocket the money. The same organisation has many other ways of enriching itself, with offers of ‘humanitarian’ work and international volunteering…at a price.
In reality, though, it is a story of an $860 million property empire based on deceit: corruption, hot money, secret companies, luxury property deals, offshore havens, police investigations, cultism, exploitation, disenchantment and shattered dreams.
Olympic size swimming pool at TG complex, San Juan de las Pulgas, Mexico
Of course, there are two sides to the story. Perhaps the fugitive leader Amdi Petersen really is a millionaire philanthropist. This is the story of Humana People-to-People, Tvind or the Teachers Group…also known as Planet Aid, Gaia, U’SAgain, DAPP, Green World, IICD, CICD, CCTG (and many other names). Yes, it’s big. It could well be collecting clothes down your street. It could be advertising for ‘volunteers for Africa’ in your local paper. If you have never heard of this organisation before, read the column on the right, ‘The Story in Five Minutes’. Then read our dossier. And then ask yourself what you can do.
Our newly restored page on DAPP UK, the Teachers Group’s only registered charity collecting clothes in the UK. This was set up in 2007, ten years after Humana UK was closed down by the Charity Commission. It is recruiting volunteers from abroad to work as low-paid or unpaid ‘charity trainees’, leaflets for clothes, has drop-in bins and shops and may run a ’school’. Please tell us of any new information.
WANTED: Can any reader supply a picture of a DAPP-UK clothes bin or shops?
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