Have you ever wondered what happens to the clothes you dump in the charity bin?
Planet Aid bins on a street in Brooklyn, NY
This website gives one answer. This is an exposure of one very large ‘charity’, which collects clothes all over the world ‘for Africa’ – and then sells them through a maze of privately-owned companies, to pocket the money. The same organisation has many other ways of enriching itself, with offers of ‘humanitarian’ work and international volunteering…at a price.
In reality, though, it is a story of an $860 million property empire based on deceit: corruption, hot money, secret companies, luxury property deals, offshore havens, police investigations, cultism, exploitation, disenchantment and shattered dreams.
Olympic size swimming pool at TG complex, San Juan de las Pulgas, Mexico
Of course, there are two sides to the story. Perhaps the fugitive leader Amdi Petersen really is a millionaire philanthropist. This is the story of Humana People-to-People, Tvind or the Teachers Group…also known as Planet Aid, Gaia, U’SAgain, DAPP, Green World, IICD, CICD, CCTG (and many other names). Yes, it’s big. It could well be collecting clothes down your street. It could be advertising for ‘volunteers for Africa’ in your local paper. If you have never heard of this organisation before, read the column on the right, ‘The Story in Five Minutes’. Then read our dossier. And then ask yourself what you can do.
OUR DOSSIER ON THE TEACHERS GROUP
