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Hello,
November 6th 2002
I`m Franz from Austria and I`m a volunteer in DRH Norway. Now I`m with my team fundraising in Stavanger(4 people, 4 countries). We ask ourselves what happens to the fundraised money. We hope that you can tell us…….We also want to know why do you think that UFF is a sect. I personally think that the TG are acting quite strange and uniformed, but I don`t think they are a sect. I try to find out what is the point about UFF and I help you can help me with this research.
November 12th 2002
We are back in school since saturday evenning. It`s a little bit better here than standimg outside in the street. But the basic things, going on in my head haven`t change. We refused to fundraise at saturday. Instead we went to Oslo to discuss with the team there. We all agreed on the plan to keep the money. We haven`t banked it,but we still have it. Many of us have concerns (it`s not legal, it`s not good playing with the money, we create a war and we are over 4 months in theschool,…), but finally we made it. But we didn`t make any decissions when to hand over the money. Most of the people here believes that they can changes. I personally fear that this is impossible. So we decieded more or less to hand out the money when there are some changes.
2 members of the TCE-team were also there. It was really frustrating to talk to them. Animals get a better treatment then they. Sent out to make a target, that at least for 3 out of 5 people is impossible to make. When they don`t make, it`s just their fault, because they don`t try it hard enough. I felt so pissed off after talking to them…
When Gert(male, marreid with Sissel, the school inspector, both members of TG, 3 children) come back from his evening sunday night heard that we won`t give him the money, he went white and red of anger. He shouted around: “you can`t blackmail me. There won`t be any meetings before the money is not handed over…” It was funny to watch him, and his reaction showed exactly what is all about: money, nothing else than making money.
Yesterday evening he dropped into the classroom to start a discussion. There were less people around, because many people were afraid to join. That was a pitty, because if we would discuss with him as one team, we would be able to make more pressure.
During the discussion it seemed like we would give up. We deciede to have a meeting afterwards. Gert made clear that changes just can happen within the program. The meeting looked like that: Gert was talking and talking and talking, always round the point, never really saying anything. That was it. But we decieded to have 4 more meetings on different issues (how to treat people, organisation, ecconomy & fundraising). By the way, you get the numbers of “our” ecconomy after our meeting.
We haven`t hand over the money, and we will put always just 2 or 3 things on the table, that he can`t go so easily around the point. We will prepare very good before each meeting and we will at least try to stand as one team. So maybe we have a little chance. Actually I don`t believe it.
Anyway 3 people decieded to quit nearly for sure. And- big suprise- I`m among them.
We don`t won`t to leave now, because we want to wait for the TCE-team. We even the crazy idea to go fundraising for them. Call us totallly insane, but we cannot accept that they get treat so bad. We won`t give up our dream of making good volunteer work. So we prepare to change the organisation, and
make a plan of going somewhere for our own.
But because we just can work on that in the evening and in the night, we nearly get no sleep. It`s quite a hard time now, but it has to be done.
There is at least with me a thing going on with trust. I don`t trust other organisations, because their discription of their work sounds similar to HPP. It is also clear that development work is a big business. Okay, I think we have choosen the worst, but other organisation also cheat and steal.
One of us has spend a lot of money in the school. Is there a possibility to get this money back?
Anyway we need now any support we can get, so thanks a lot.
Many of us are in this programm because they get a “Scholarship”. S o they paid a little bit less but the school is still terrible expensive because we have to fundraise. Nobody from our team made NetUp, so we are slaves, who are free to go.
We, who are leaving, have also prepare to “fundraise”. That means we have to find a place to live for free in a country with good average salary, and find work there. Norway wouldn`t be such a bad country.
Anyway thanks a lot for your informatins and your support