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Key Documents about Tvind

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Here we bring together in one place some of the key documents which help to put Tvind and Humana-UFF into perspective.  Ex-members, researchers, NGOs, universities, anti-cult groups, official bodies and concerned individuals have for more than 20 years issued books, reports and articles on Tvind  -   accounts which all add up to....a very odd business.   Read and enjoy.

Tvind - an MA Thesis  (1994)

Norwegian journalist Leiv Gunnar Lie spent six months researching Tvind at City University, London.  This is an authoritative but really scary account of starry-eyed teenagers hitch-hiking through the bush, strange financial dealings, a shipwreck, and dogma-driven adults.   A good introduction.  (English).

 Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfnger.  ("Psycho-cults  -  how the soul-catchers work")    by Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck.  (Fischer-TB.-Vlg. Ffm. 1999.  ISBN 3596142407)    (In German)

Berlin journalists Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck investigated 'psycho-cults' and included a chapter about Tvind's worldwide empire.   They concluded Tvind was a cult.

Read the opening section on Tropical Produce Ltd, Tvind's plantation in Belize.....

Steen Thomsen's Report to the Danish Government    In English    Steen Thomsen, a Danish teacher, got involved with Tvind as a young college student.  For 26 years he blindly followed every instruction - including an order to burn family photograph albums and cut himself off from relatives.  He turned over most of his income and family property to Tvind.   He became headmaster of a Tvind school in the UK,  Winestead Hall, but after official investigations, the school was suddenly closed in 1998.  Thomsen saw the light, resigned and returned to Denmark. He has since campaigned against Tvind and sent a report to the Danish government.  

Mind Control  (Danish)    by Frank Bornakke, a former Tvind member, published in Denmark and on the Internet at the Movement Against Tvind's home page. 

Humana People to People Movement : tentative de mise--(la lumire du)-jour.   Privately-circulated report by a well-informed international development NGO official , who drew up this memo on what was known for certain about Tvind /  DAPP / Humana in 1998.    He concludes that Tvind is 'a non-religious sect' with a well-integrated 'world empire'..... (French)

Movement Against Tvind, Norway.   A leaflet issued by the Scandinavian "organisations of Tvind apostates"   -   using information supplied by people who have left the organisation.

A report by the EC (1986)   The EC studied DAPP's projects in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  It found there was lots of enthusiasm but concluded, among other things, that DAPP was fostering 'dependency' on the part of local people, instead of handing over control of the projects.    The EEC and EU have not knowingly funded DAPP projects since.

DAPP and ADPP in Zimbabwe and Angola  (Jan 2000)    A report by Forum Syd, an agency of the Swedish development agency SIDA, after a visit to DAPP/ADPP projects in southern Africa.     Did Forum Syd ask the right questions?  Tvind Alert is evaluating this report.

About Tvind    A brief but to- the-point summary of Tvind circulating on the Internet and among journalists.  This anonymous memo is quite old, probably dating from the early 1980s, but has a ring of authenticity. (English)

 

Controversial groups in Belgium and Holland  "De groep/sekte met als hoofdzetel Denemarken heeft tal van vertakkingen oa. Tvind,..." (Dutch) from the Internet.

Tvind-Humana: controversial reform education and fake companies   (Source: Evangelische Zentralstelle fr Weltanschauungsfragen (Evangelical Centre for World Contemplative Issues).)

The Tvind-Humana business is a non-transparant, worldwide-active company, which should be considered as a commercial cult.    It operates under the cover-up of different organisations, firms and foundations which officially carry out prosperity- and development aid. Best known is the chain for second hand clothes Humana, of which the headquarters are located in Zimbabwe and which has a big number of  branches in Europe.

 

 

 

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