e-update 23rd April 2009
Official action against Humana – Tvind
Tvind Alert is now getting noticed by officials keen to understand our inquiry and we are drawing up a very simple page outlining the best examples where Humana – Tvind has been officially ‘blacklisted’, or the subject of some kind of official action. We will include supporting evidence.
Can you help compile this page? Please send any information you know of where Humana (or any Teachers Group affiliate) has been blacklisted, banned or official action has been taken. This could be local such as where a town council has banned Humana boxes, and we also want to make sure we include bigger official actions from our files (for example, it has just been refused recognition as a serious NGO in Germany). Any suggestions for the content of this page are welcome. Please attach links or supporting evidence in any language.
The page is being created over time at www.tvindalert.com/blacklisted.html – take a look and tell us what you think.
Become a citizen journalist – take a picture!
We need up to date pictures of Teachers Group clothes boxes to add to the new Tvind Alert web site and for a new picture gallery. Please send digital photographs (stating where taken). We would like pictures of shops, schools and buildings too.
Remember Teachers Group clothes boxes are: Humana, Planet Aid, Gaia, U’SAgain, DAPP, UFF and Green World Recycling.
OTHER NEWS
* We have put on line our list of the top thirty Tvind ‘Teachers’.
* An excellent article has been published in the United States: ‘A Scam of Planetary Proportions?’
* Danish municipalities have paid 200 million Dkr (about £24 million) to Tvind over two years, exclusive research by Tvind Alert shows.
Please email pictures or information to: feedback@tvindalert.com
e-Update 18th February 2009
Media interest – can you help?
Following the fraud conviction of Poul Joergensen, we have been contacted by numerous media outlets and they need your help. Unfortunately there will be no payment for interviews, but hey, just consider – we journalists and inquiring souls at Tvind Alert have been working on this without any payment for years – it’s not all about money! If you are happy to do an interview with a journalist, tell us and we’ll pass it on.
- Are you a former DI from anywhere in the world who recently went to a Tvind school in Denmark – where you spent most of your time ‘fudraising’ and hardly any time learning? A major Danish broadcaster has contacted us and would like to interview you.
- Are you in Malawi or Mozambique or know anything at all about the Planet Aid – USDA Food for Progress scheme? We have been visited in London by reporters from a leading newspaper in Scandinavia who are investigating and would like a confidential interview.
- A US TV channel in Washington has called us. They are collecting information for an item to be broadcast in the USA and need help. They would like to hear from you if you are an American who has recently been to a Tvind college (anywhere in the world, but especially in the USA) or gone abroad with Tvind.
- The BBC ‘Face the Facts’ programme is working on a follow-up to its 2008 broadcast on Winestead Hall and would like to hear from anyone who knows anything about the Teachers Group’s enterprises in Britain, especially the registered charity DAPP UK, or from any British ex-DIs who have gone abroad.
MORE NEWS
Germany: Humana is ‘not serious’
The German Federal Department for Economical Cooperation and Development has just issued a statement declaring “Humana People to People Deutschland e.V.” not to be a serious organisation for development politics. This announcement was welcomed by a group of 70 NGOs for development politics. Watch this space.
Are there any volunteers to help to build an up to date ‘Germany’ page here?
New page on offshore companies
I have created a page on Teachers Group offshore companies and hope to add to as time allows, with a dossier available as evidence to third parties. So if there is anyone out there with any knowledge of these companies, please tell me. I am briefing several experts on money laundering and tax evasion with a view to trying to place an article in the UK media soon.
Investigating Planet Aid – USDA Food for Progress
One of our number in the United States is looking closely at this scheme and we are hoping to make the US authorities aware of the clear link between Planet Aid and the now proven fraud allegations in Europe – if they will listen. Can you help?
Do something for Tvind Alert
Recently quite a few people have come forward to offer to help do something for Tvind Alert and we’ll be getting back to them shortly with ideas. We wanted to make www.tvindalert.com more collaborative but it turns out our host does not support a Content Management System so it’s back to the drawing board.
If you are a budding sleuth and want to build a page on www.tvindalert.com using Internet and email to investigate, then tell us…..we could also do with people to create things on YouTube and generally help with kind of e-admin and stuff.
Onward and upward.
