TVIND ALERT

We have several stories on file about the experience of volunteers for Humana in India.     Humana operates a college known as DRH Sikkim.

Sponsorship from Tata steel.



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Revised:  1st March 2010

A college and hotel complex. DAPP clothes bins.

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We have much information and many complaints about the Teachers Group college at Lillehammer. This is a college variously known as ‘DRH Norway’ or the ‘One World Institute’. Volunteers who sign up here are usually required to work unpaid at the attached ski hotel, which is a business operated by the Teachers Group. This arrangement has generated many complaints that we have on file.


According to recent information UFF used clothes bins in Norway are now rebranded ‘DAPP‘



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Last revised 1st March 2010

Institute for International Cooperation and Development

A Teachers Group college in Michigan

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We have started to receive emails with new material on IICD-Mi

Are there any ex-volunteers / ex-TG members who would be willing to edit this page?



This is one of three Teachers Group colleges in the USA.      We have a wealth of information on file about this college including accounts, financial information, details of the Teachers Group members involved, its links with other Teachers Group enterprises in the USA, Tvind in Denmark and the Teachers Group offshore network, and many complaints by former students.

The other US colleges are IICD Massachusetts and CCTG in California




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Revised: 11th March, 2010

Institute for International Co-operation and Development
Teachers Group college in the USA




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We have a wealth of information on file about this college including accounts, financial information, details of the Teachers Group members involved, its links with other Teachers Group enterprises in the USA, Tvind in Denmark and the Teachers Group offshore network, and many complaints by former students.

It was opened in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1986.

We have reports that IICD is collecting old clothes directly from the public in its own bins.  See our gallery of Teachers Group clothes bins.



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STORIES

Zahara’s story (IICD and Zambia, 1987-9)

Other stories by IICD Massachsetts students are found by searching here




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Last revised 28th February 2010

Campus California Teachers Group

College in Etna, northern California

Links have been restored

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CCTG is a Teachers Group college in a fairly remote area of northern California.   We have a great deal of information on file about this college, including reports from many former students, and evidence of the college’s links to other Teachers Group colleges in the US, clothes recycling enterprises, and finance and property companies.




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WITNESS

24th March 2009

Witness: ‘The Help Africa Fraud’ – CCTG college, USA

Personal statement and account of Campus California TG college, USA (submitted February 2009). By Matrice Jackson.

Many more stories on file.  For the moment, please use the search engine.



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Last revised: 28th February 2010

International College for Co-operation and Development

Two colleges in the USA:

IICD Massachusetts

IICD Michigan

College for International Co-operation and Development
Winestead Hall, near Hull, UK



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A Teachers Group residential college near Hull, England. Its apparent purpose is to train young volunteers to become ‘Development Instructors’ in Africa. We have a lot of information on file about this college and its links to the Teachers Group, and numerous accounts by ex students.
We have reports that the college is using boxes to collect used clothes directly from the public in the Hull area, using the name ‘College Aid’.



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WITNESS


CICD is a Tvind ‘DRH college’ modelled on the Tvind educational system first devised by Amdi Petersen in the 1970s. Young people are supposed to follow a ‘learn by doing’ teaching programme with travel to the Third World. In fact, a large part of students’ time is spent fundraising (begging on the streets) and maintaining school buildings, rather than attending proper lessons. This system has led to hundreds of complaints, with frequent rebellions and several occasions when students have left en masse.


Valentina’s story (CICD 2009) – in English and Italian



Annelie’s story (2000)


Gita’s story (2000)



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PRESS REPORTS


School of thought. Cruel Mind Games – Inside the Secret World of a Cult (The Times, 2nd May 2000). By Michael Durham



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HOT MONEY

Who owns Winestead Hall and CICD?



The school land and property is owned by a Jersey-registered offshore company, Argyll Smith and Company, also controlled by the Teachers Group. We believe that CICD pays inflated rent to the Teachers Group – a convenient and easy way to pass money from the school budget into offshore accounts without tax.


Argyll Smith & Co is already known to Danish police and British charity officials and has been used to hide Teachers Group money for some years. According to the 2001 Danish police report, Argyll Smith is one of several key Tvind holding companies. It was implicated in alleged corruption discovered by the UK Charity Commission in 1997.




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WHO RUNS CICD?

In 2007, directors were:


Karen Barsoe – head teacher, director and company secretary. Danish. A dedicated member of the Teachers Group since 1971.


Birgit Soe – also the full-time manager of Planet Aid UK, a linked Teachers Group clothes collection enterprise.


Birgitte Erichsen – the address given is the Teachers Group’s head office in Grindsted, Denmark.


Previous directors include Mikala Gottlob, an early Tvind graduate in the 1970s, who was a director and company secretary of the disgraced Humana UK before 1998. She is now a non-executive director of the Tvind-related Trayton Group of companies in China.


Another founding director was Helle Lund, also a former director and company secretary of Humana UK, now a manager of the Teachers Group Gaia clothes enterprise in Chicago, USA.



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Last revised: 28th February 2010