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Stories and information about CCTG:
Campus California TG and Richmond Vale Academy
(08/02/2008)
This is the school in California that my daughter got suckered into attending and royaly ripped off by the sender of this recent email. They are still in business and still ripping off innocent people in the disguise of helping the poor. Bruce.
----- Original Message -----
From: Campus California
To: cctgcalifornia@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 9:52 PM
Subject: Volunteer in the Caribbean and in Africa!
Good news!
It's now possible to train and volunteer in the Caribbean before going
to a HUMANA People to People project in Africa.
CCTG has a partnerschool, Richmond Vale Academy, in a small poor country
in the Eastern Caribbean called St.Vincent. If you look on the map its a bit North of Venezuela.
DRH Richmond Vale Academy has right now 3 places available on the March Team to Malawi, South Africa and Mozambique.
We would like to invite you to visit the schools website
www.richmondvale.org
and you can write to my collegue Stina at Stina@richmondvaleacademy.org if you like to apply for one of the last places on the Team.
Its a big team with 25 people and they come from Chile, Costa Rica, Japan, Ecuador, Sweden, Hungary, Venezuela, Austria, Switzeland, Finland, Brazil, St.Vincent, Spain.......
Kind regards
Jana Teppih
CCTG in co-operation with Richmond Vale Academy and HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
www.cctg.org
www.humana.org
www.richmondvale.org
"I wasted all my time and money"
(April, 2006)
I (and possibly another former student ) would like to give an account of what went on while I was a student at the DRH school in California or CCTG. I was very concerned with the way things were going while I was there. My primary concern was that there was no backbone to the structure of the organization. I feel completely ripped off, and while I was there it seemed like the money was the number one concern and the education was well below sea level, so to speak.
There was a constant demand from our team to the TG for more education, for them to actually contribute TIME and EFFORT into our curriculum was something we had to organize a meeting for and dispute! The team going to Mozambique, after three months, were supposed to be well into their Portuguese lessons and they were not. They weren't any teachers helping them. It was a work camp. We cleaned the bulding, worked in the yard, fundraised money, and were left with the DMM to complete tasks. It felt like a work camp.
Our team became frustrated with our decision to have joined such an organization, and it dimmed our morale. We were fed up and getting nasty with one another. The TG did nothing but motivate us to make more money. They had no formal teacher training, no way to handle problems that arose, no guidance skills, nothing. They were not the people that were supposed to be responsible for the lives of six people for 14 months, 6 of which is spent in sub-Saharan Africa!!
I would like to contribute something that would stand out to people who are considering joining such a program and open their eyes to much better programs out there that actually care for their own. I would also like a heads up of the whole Tvind thing, because the whole time we were there, all we got was biased versions of the truth, and "it's everyone else's paranoia, the TG are good people, never did anything wrong, blah blah blah"
I just want to know why I wasted all my time and money on these "people" - if you can call them that. AC.
"All the money goes in a big circle"
(January 2005)
I was at CCTG for 2 months. After a month we were sent to Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA to do promotions and recruit new volunteers. We were there for 4 days and by the 3rd day an email had circulated throuout the University Staff saying that we were part of a cult and the staff should tell their students not to talk to us. The last day we were there everyone on that campus did whatever they could to avoid us. We had organized an information presentation and no one showed up for it. Then someone came in and showed us the email that was going around. We were all really defensive because we believed that we were doing something great. When we returned to CCTG we all started asking questions about the program and Tvind. So our teacher (who was really just a babysitter as she could not teach even if she tried) set up a course called "Tvind: what is the controversy". Tomas (the headmaster) gave this course and he told us all about Humana and the TG and Tvind. He answered our questions openly but made sure that he told us that it was all just a big misunderstanding and they are not a cult, they just want to share their money so they can start more good projects. He said that people didn't understand them because they were doing something differnt. Most of us were pretty satisfied with this meeting. He was so willing to answer our questions that we believed what he said and we told ourselves that we were involved in something good.
A week or so later we were sent out to do fundraising for 2 weeks. Fundraising on the street is horrible. By the second week out there I was so unhappy that I just stopped. I decided that I would find some other way to raise money...there are lots of non-profits out there and it seems like only the shady ones rely on money from the street. My guess is that they want money that is untraceable. A group of us banned together and decided that we could not keep asking people for money unless we knew exactly where it was going. We stopped fundraising and hitchhiked back to CCTG 4 days early. When arrived back at CCTG no one asked us why we came back they just said that we should not have stopped fundraising. All they cared about was the money that they were not making. When we told them that we had questions that need to be answered before we went back out there, Tomas started yelling that he had told us over and over that the money went to our training. It really doesn't make any sense because there isn't really any proper training. Our teacher was a volunteer and she knew absolutly nothing about our program, in fact no one in the school new anything about the TCE program other then a general outline. So we had a big meeting with Tomas and Ruth and they told us that anything to do with fundraising was not up for discussion. That was the moment that I decied that I was leaving. As soon as we stared questioning the program they did not want us there. Tomas is a very controlling man with a temper. After that night I never wanted to see him again. He was even yelling at Ruth to shut up every time she tried to say somehing.
One of the guys asked about the GAIA used clothing collection and we found out that a large portion of the money we fundraise goes into running this program. They collect clothes and sell them at a loss to Garson and Shaw which is a TG company. Garson and Shaw then sell the clothes for major profit. All the money goes in a big circle and everything is connected.
Myself and two others left after that. Another guy left a couple months later and another is leaving next week. The people that stay either have no other place to go so they stick with the program, or they want to go to Africa so badly that they don't question the organization. A lot of them have the belief that once they get to Africa they will be able to do their best in the projects and help out in some way. They don't want to believe that the programs in Africa are just as corrupt, if not more so, then the programs in the USA.
Nicole
"I had the worst experience of my life"
(March 2004)
I was pumping my gas the other day and what do I see out of the corner of my eye? A Gaia clothes donation bin. it is placed in the gas station on the corner on Park Street and Otis Drive, Alameda California. I haven't seen another one around yet but I bet if there's one there's plenty more around. I will keep an eye out for these and post when I locate a new one.
I am an ex student of CCTG (Campus California Teachers Group) and I had the worst experience of my life while I was there (and I've been homeless). I have many stories to tell about my time there and I have many friends who also attended the school but quit when they found out the real truth about the place.
Get your facts straight!
(February 2002)
I personally went to Campus Califorina TG and yes it was a lot of work
because the school was just starting up and Ruth Tomas and Poitr always
told us that we would particapate in the building of the school. It did
cost a lot of money to go BUT this is a non profit organzation and they
only ask for room and board and barely even that. The fundraising was not so bad and it trained us for when we went to africa! you have to know how to talk to people and be comterble talking to people when your trying to go to africa to teach children how to speak english or when you teach people about the epiemic. CCTG is not a cult, it is a lot of honest people trying to work hard to do something most people are to lazy or heartless to do which is to HELP PEOPLE. the tvind people who write such harmful things about such a great organzation should visit cctg or at least etna. AND last but not least the articule written about cctg "has a cult moved into etna" was written by a local and if you people know anything about etna you would know that it is a town of about 700 people who still call black people jungle monkeys and when the orthodox monks moved to etna tried to run them off the dirt roads in their 67 pickups so when they say its cults thats like beliving a cave man when he says the earth is flat so basically get your facts straight before you bad mouth something!
Sabrina <binastarus@yahoo.com>
"I just want them out of my country"
(February 2002)
I was aware of Planet Aid, Gaia, just about everything, but I didn't care much about all the other organizations...As far as a question on whether the volunteers or CCTG pay. The volunteers pay for everything. For example, I didn't have to pay a tuition fee, but my friend paid 3000 USD, his plane ticket from Europe, and fundraised 2000 dollars. He also had to get his own Visa (everyone gets a tourist visa). Except, for Tomas and Piotr they have work visas. As far as I know they got to keep there travel documents.
Also, just FYI when a team fundraises they have to get a permit. When we went to San Francisco and the officials there found out what this was they were very disturbed. I am pretty sure there will be no fundraising by CCTG in the San Francisco area. Just call every city hall up and down the west coast and in the IICD area using the same channels you would use to get a permit and make them aware that a cult might be coming to there city....
I don't want to expose TG. I want them out of my country. If you can't use the legal track to do this. Then you hit them were it hurts...money. Volunteers equal money. No volunteers, no cities to fundraise in equals no money. By the way AS properties is the company that owns CCTG and IICD.
KD
"Money mad"
(January 2002)
Three people, two guys and one girl, have left CCTG on 27th January. They were fundraising in San Jose and realised the truth about the school that they were only fundraising to keep up the lifestyles of the people in the Teacher Group. The people at CCTG care more about how much money you make rather than how much you learn. I really feel sorry for those people who are still stuck there, how sad their lives must be at this moment. Also why the 3 people are not the first ones to quit CCTG, because every person who has been there in the last year and a bit have quit. All of them walked out except for four who went to Africa and are still there now, but one girl quit while she was in Africa. More teams are expected in Feb, Mar, Apr, and I also think that half of these people will walk out also when they find out the truth about CCTG. Money mad!!!!!
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