WIKIPEDIA ON TVIND
A recent entry on 'Tvind' from the online encyclopaedia WIKIPEDIA:
'Tvind' is a controversial organisation, purportedly involved in development aid. It is accused of being a cult. Founded in Denmark by Mogens Amdi Petersen, it collects used garments from the public and sells them in Europe, South America and Africa. It also runs a number of schools. Tvind holds a large number of properties around the world.
"There are many organisations affiliated with Tvind, including Humana People to People, Planet Aid, U'SAgain, Gaia, and Green World Recycling. Humana People to People often advertises for volunteers from Europe and North America to work in the Third World.
"Mogens Amdi Petersen and other prominent members of the Teachers' Group are currently facing fraud charges in a Danish court."
The Tvind movement
It's this larger 'Tvind' that, under many different names, owns and runs all the schools, colleges, orphanages, recycling enterprises, HIV/aids centres, humanitarian projects and other apparently charitable good works across the world.
Let's call it 'The Tvind Movement'. Humana People-to-People is just a part of it. This is the global movement founded by Mogens Amdi Petersen in the late 1960s, beginning as a small alternative school, now a large network.
These enterprises are certainly ideologically (and financially) linked, although Tvind bosses often try to claim they are all separate, have nothing to do with each other, and there is no such thing as 'Tvind'. This is palpable nonsense.
And one thing nearly all Tvind bosses have in common is that they went as a pupil or volunteer to one of the Tvind schools or colleges, where they were immersed in the Tvind world view. Most went on to become Teachers and joined the Teachers Group
The 4 schools at Tvind
Youngsters volunteering with Tvind in Ulfborg - or enrolling as a student themselves - may find themselves at one of these:
School 1: The Necessary Teacher Training College (Det Nødvendige Seminarium) or DNS. Four-year Tvind teaching college. Subsidiary two year course known as DNYS.
School 2: The Tvind Efterskole or DIE Tvind. Also called the Free School and the International Continuation School. Day and boarding school for Danish and German 14-18 year olds.
School 3: PTG International Youth College (Practical and Theoretical Basic Education). College for 18-24 year olds, some with 'social and emotional difficulties' and others with 'social resources'.
School 4: Tvind Dagskole or the Day School at Tvind. College for over 16s.
There is a full description at Tvind's website www.tvind.dk
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What is 'Tvind'?
'Tvind' is a huge multinational corporation.
On a local level, there are the schools at Tvind - a small cluster of buildings in a field near Ulfborg in western Denmark, known as the 'Tvind School Centre'. They include three secondary schools and a teacher training college. Tvind is the name of the spot where they were built. They are owned and run by a wealthy educational charity - itself usually known just as 'Tvind'.
The Tvind financial empire
Finally, there is the big picture 'Tvind', the hidden multinational business, commonly referred to as 'The Tvind Empire' - an incredibly complex, global financial network of linked companies, partnerships, subsidiaries, financial trusts, registered charities, for-profits, not-for-profits, back-room nominee enterprises and offshore tax haven accounts.
It has included: property companies, shipping companies, clothes trading companies, banana and mango growing companies, logging companies, wood trading companies, all manner of management and consultancy companies, computer, television and film....many trading between themselves, perfectly real and handling millions of dollars....others, according to Danish police, pure invention and intended to transfer money. Take your pick - they are all 'Tvind'.
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