Development Aid from People to People
Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo
Africa
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DAPP and ADPP are Humana’s African local ‘aid agencies’ that run schools, colleges, orphanages, aid projects, clothes and shoes shops on the Teachers Group’s behalf in Angola, Botswana, Congo, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Teachers Group members are always in charge and administer budgets set by Humana People-to-People, disbursing money from clothes sales and donations. Project leaders are employed by DAPP / ADPP offfices.
In 2007 the Teachers Group registered a new clothes charity, DAPP UK, in Britain. This is the first UK charity registered by the TG since the Charity Commission closed down Humana UK in 1997.
DAPP was also the name of a Teachers Group offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands.
HOT MONEY
How DAPP project leaders unwittingly finance the Teachers Group
An explanation
DAPP project leaders are all members of the Tvind Teachers Group. Originally they were mostly Scandinavians and other white people who trained with Tvind and were sent to work in Africa. Recently Tvind has been recruiting many black people from poor African countries such as Cameroon and Tanzania into the Teachers Group, who serve the same purpose.
The purpose is to ‘externalise’ money from DAPP / ADPP into offshore accounts, by using a simnple salary scam.
While volunteer ‘DIs’ (‘Development Instructors’ – who are not members of the Teachers Group) are unpaid, the permanent Teachers Group DAPP/ADPP project leaders are handsomely paid – often enormous salaries, we are told up to twice the normal value in hard currency that aid workers might expect to be paid, or similar to the wages paid to foreign staff by the United Nations and the very biggest NGOs.
These huge salaries give rise to a clever money transfer which over 30 years is thought to have raised millions of dollars for the Teachers Group’s offshore accounts and private businesses, in a ‘foreign salary scam.’
It works like this: the Humana ‘charities’ and DAPP / ADPP raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from old clothes bins, shops, donations and fees, which is supposed to be distributed as foreign aid by DAPP / ADPP in Africa. According to the books, the money should be used to pay ‘project leaders’.
But it isn’t. Yes, according to the books, the project leaders get large salaries. But as members of the Teachers Group, they have agreed to work for nothing. And that’s what they get – nothing. Instead, virtually all the salary money goes into special, secret bank accounts from where, we believe, it is almost certainly spirited out of Africa into a Teachers Group offshore account or trust fund somewhere in the Caribbean, where it can be used for – well anything the Teachers Group leaders decide.
This could include financing commercial farms, buying property, purchasing the fleet of four-wheel-drive Mercedes commonly used by the most senior Teachers Group leaders, or servicing the debt on a luxury yacht. Some of the money is undoubtedly used for the vehicles and comfortable homes enjoyed by the most senior (European) project leaders resident in Africa. Yes, a few senior Teachers Group members may receive a reasonable reward, but the rest just get pocket money.
The UK Charity Commission investigation
During their 1997 investigation of Humana UK and DAPP Zambia, the UK Charity Commission discovered and reported on the Teachers Group salary scam. As a result of their investigation, Humana UK and two schools in Britain were wound up. Otherwise nothing has changed. Why the Charity Commission closed down Humana UK
Danish police investigation
In their 2001 evidence for the fraud prosecution of Amdi Petersen and other Teachers Group leaders, the Danish police Department of Serious Economic Crime also refer to the salary scam method of creaming off money from Teachers Group projects. Danish police evidence.
HOT MONEY
The Angola cashback
Britta Junge, a Teachers Group project leaderfor DAPP in Zimbabwe and Angola during the 1990s, has described how part of her job was to smuggle large sums of cash secretly from Angola to Europe, apparently to help pay for secret Teachers Group land deals.
Much of the money had been donated to ADPP by multinational oil companies working in Angola for local project work.
HOT MONEY
DAPP and the The USDA ‘Food for Progress’ grants
Since 2005 Planet Aid has received millions of dollars each year in funding from the USDA’s Food For Progress program. This is a programme by which U.S. agriculture commodities are provided for the benefit of developing countries. The USDA donates the produce directly to NGOs. DAPP in Malawi and ADPP in Mozambique are responsible for distributing it and using it effectively, or selling it to fund development.
In 2004 Planet Aid received only ’soya produce’ which it used in its ADPP soy restaurants in Africa. Since 2005, USDA has made grants of wheat instead, which Planet Aid was told to sell in Mozambique and Malawi. But since Planet Aid started receiving money and not produce, a strange thing has happened. As the grant funding increased, the percentage of funds Planet Aid donated to the developing country projects from its used clothing proceeds has gone down. Read more.
Last revised 26th February 2010
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