Around three or four Humana used clothes shops. Polish students being
recruited for CICD college in the UK.
According to the Polish media, Humana Poland is now
under the control of right wing activists.
NEWS
1st November 2009
According to an informant, the Tvind Teachers Group plans soon to start making clothes collections by introducing bins into Poland. if you see a TG clothes bin, please tell us and send a picture.
14th October 2009
Tvind Alert is appealing for any information on Humana or Teachers Group commercial companies in Poland. If you can find anything out – for example company names, addresses, names of directors, or financial information – please tell us.
20th March 2009
“Right wing extremists” in charge of Humana in Poland
Humana People-to-People in Poland has come under the control of two right wing extremists, Sebastian Mecfal, 32, and Sebastian Kwiatkowski, according to the Polish press. The pair are well known in Poland as ‘anti-leftists’ notorious for organising ‘anti-left happenings’ at Lodz University.
Mecfal, today Humana Poland’s general manager, was closely connected to the right wing prime minister Jerzy Buzek before 2001. He fled Poland in disgrace after it was revealed that his right wing student agitation was funded with hundred of thousands of zlotys from public institutions and companies routed through the prime minister’s office.
He enrolled at the Teacher Group’s CICD college in England and spent three years as a Humana ‘development instructor’ before returning to Poland as Humana’s general manager. Asked by “Polityka” “how an extremist right-winger found himself in the movement founded by Maoist advocate”, Sebastian Mecfal replied: “This organisation has long before given up on being leftist”. See news article below.
POLISH NEWS ARTICLES
POLITYKA (20th March 2009): Young People and Clothes by Bianka Mikołajewska. An investigation into Humana Poland and right wing activists Sebastian Mecfal and Sebastian Kwiatkowski. Young People and Clothes (in English). Młodzież plus odzież (in Polish)
SUPERWIZJER (Polish TV – 15th September 2002). Contacts say a TV programme on Humana People-to-People was broadcast in Poland on channel TVN, in the programme Superwizjer, at 22.30h. No further information.
GAZETA WYBORCZA (7th March 2002): The Chief is Living in Paradise by Magdalena Grzebałkowska. Dostaliśmy list: “Organizacja TVIND pod pozorem pomocy Afryce zarabia na wolontariuszach ogromne pieniądze. Zmusza ich do żebrania na ulicach. Robi pranie mózgów”. Zgłosiłam się jako wolontariuszka. Pojechałam do Danii. Reportaż Magdaleny Grzebałkowskiej m.grzebalkowska@wp.pl. A long and detailed exposee of Tvind in Poland and Denmark. The Chief is living in Paradise (in English). Szef zamieszkał w raju (in Polish)
BLOGS AND INTERNET
ANTYBLOG (3rd September 2009) – by Ewa Paduch. Voluntary service for a mere trifle – 12,000 zlotys! (in English). Wolontariat za bagatela 12 tysięcy złotych! (in Polish)
WITNESS
Ghislaine’s story (Kwa Zulu Natal Experimental College, 2008). ‘Ghislaine’ is a retired Polish language teacher.
Bozena and Jacek’s story (Poland, Sweden and Denmark, 2001). Kochani, Prosimy o pomoc w naszej sprawie.Zostaliśmy oszukani przez organizację humanitarną z Danii z Tvindu. Organizacja ta ma nazwę HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE. (Dear friends, we ask for help in this matter. We have been deceived by a humanitarian organization from Tvind in Denmark. The name of this organization is HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE.)
USED CLOTHES TRADE
The Teachers Group is heavily involved in the commercial used clothes trade in Poland, using second hand garments that have been donated in Western Europe or the USA as ‘aid to Africa’, and shipping them to Poland, where they are sold through Humana shops. Most of the clothes are shipped from Humana’s vast warehouse in the Netherlands.
According to informants, for many years one of the leading used clothes dealers in Poland from 1997 was Danish national Dorthe Joergensen, who is married to Poul Joergensen, the Teachers Group lawyer who was found guilty of fraud and jailed in Denmark in 2009. We do not know if she is still in the country.
Company names that have been associated with the Teachers Group in Poland include the names Millennium Bank, Tor-Pal and Challacombe Trading although we do not have details.
This could also be a Tvind company, but more information is required: Brno, Merkurv Ul. Swierkova 3 mr. Stanislaw Kulik.
We would welcome firm information on the business accounts of Humana Poland and any commercial, business or trading companies that can be linked to the Teachers Group. If you can find anything out, please tell us.
YOUR COMMENTS
1st Nov 2009 – ‘F’ writes: “HI, what I know, about Poland, there are 2 TG, young people, he is from Poland, she is black and from Portugal I think. What I know last time, they have 3 shops and they planed with TG europe to start clothes colection there by containers.
Where I can find a gallery of pictures of Tvind containers? They have some new kind in scandinavien countries”
Tvind Alert writes: The gallery is here.
Last revised 2nd November 2009
