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The money machine - 3
Main sources of Tvind income
Tvind collects used garments for free from the public and sells them, at a profit, in Europe, America and Eastern Europe. It even sells them to the poor in Africa. It does not give the clothes away. Second hand clothing is one of the most lucrative trades in the world, and behind the 'charities' known as UFF, Humana and Planet Aid is a huge network of import-export companies controlled by members of the Teachers Group and spanning the world.
Members of the Teachers' Group become secret businessmen, opening up profitable trading ventures in land, clothes, food, computers, import-export etc. Many are based in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar. the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Belize. Tax evasion
Trainee Development Instructors are told they have to pay their way through college and into Africa - they are sent on to the streets in Scandinavia and the United States, selling postcards or brochures to passers by. Volunteers are given unrealistically high targets and constantly chided not to fail. The money raised in this way is in addition to advance course fees of around 2,000. Many volunteers say the money they raised disappeared into Tvind coffers and was not used for aid in Africa.
Thousands of pupils in dozens of schools all over the world generate a huge income. The schools have been dubbed 'a Tvind money machine'. Solidarity workers in Europe and the USA pay up front and even in Africa, students pay school fees. In Denmark, the Government pays Tvind teachers' salaries by law and local authorities choose to pay Tvind to educate difficult children. Volunteer teachers have reported all sorts of scams designed to raise even more - false documentation, teachers being registered at more than one school, and so on.
State and NGO support
Tvind is constantly asking for money to support its 'charity work', without disclosing its revenue from commercial ventures. It constantly applies - successfully - to embassies, governments, charitable trusts and development agencies such as SIDA and DANIDA. Among the businesses which give millions of dollars are multinational oil companies such as BP-Amoco, Chevron and Citizens Energy.
Tvind makes money by getting young people to work for nothing - or very little - in its clothes shops, sorting centres, as drivers, as location scouts, in its schools, and as Development Instructors abroad. Where people are paid, they are often required to work very long days and told they are letting the side down if they refuse. NetUp is Tvind's scheme to persuade young volunteers to work for nothing.
Over 30 years hundreds of members of the Teachers Group have donated millions of pounds by making over earnings and property to Tvind. In some cases the money comes straight from salaries paid by outside bodies, which are moved directly into Tvind coffers - the teachers work for almost nothing. If they leave, they get no money back
Money quietly invested in fruit farms and plantations in Belize, Ecuador, Brazil, Fiji and elsewhere makes a handsome return. 'Aid projects' in Zimbabwe and other Third World countries are often thinly disguised farming ventures on land Tvind itself owns.
Since the 'salaries' paid to TG members are just theoretical, all sorts of creative accountancy becomes possible, provided someone is prepared to sign that they have 'received' the money. It could go into a Swiss bank account... Here is one example of how this can be used. Another was revealed by a Danish television programme in 2000.
Wherever it plants a so-called 'project', the first thing the Teachers Group does is apply for funding from other charities such as Save the Children or Unicef. . Sometimes it gets money and credibility. But how is the money used? Is there double funding? Does it always present an accurate picture. Payments by oil companies
One thing almost everybody connected with Tvind agrees on is that Tvind is extremely interested in money. But for whom?
Main sources of Tvind income
Tvind collects used garments for free from the public and sells them, at a profit, in Europe, America and Eastern Europe. It even sells them to the poor in Africa. It does not give the clothes away. Second hand clothing is one of the most lucrative trades in the world, and behind the 'charities' known as UFF, Humana and Planet Aid is a huge network of import-export companies controlled by members of the Teachers Group and spanning the world.
Members of the Teachers' Group become secret businessmen, opening up profitable trading ventures in land, clothes, food, computers, import-export etc. Many are based in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar. the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Belize. Tax evasion
Trainee Development Instructors are told they have to pay their way through college and into Africa - they are sent on to the streets in Scandinavia and the United States, selling postcards or brochures to passers by. Volunteers are given unrealistically high targets and constantly chided not to fail. The money raised in this way is in addition to advance course fees of around 2,000. Many volunteers say the money they raised disappeared into Tvind coffers and was not used for aid in Africa.
Thousands of pupils in dozens of schools all over the world generate a huge income. The schools have been dubbed 'a Tvind money machine'. Solidarity workers in Europe and the USA pay up front and even in Africa, students pay school fees. In Denmark, the Government pays Tvind teachers' salaries by law and local authorities choose to pay Tvind to educate difficult children. Volunteer teachers have reported all sorts of scams designed to raise even more - false documentation, teachers being registered at more than one school, and so on.
State and NGO support
Tvind is constantly asking for money to support its 'charity work', without disclosing its revenue from commercial ventures. It constantly applies - successfully - to embassies, governments, charitable trusts and development agencies such as SIDA and DANIDA. Among the businesses which give millions of dollars are multinational oil companies such as BP-Amoco, Chevron and Citizens Energy.
Tvind makes money by getting young people to work for nothing - or very little - in its clothes shops, sorting centres, as drivers, as location scouts, in its schools, and as Development Instructors abroad. Where people are paid, they are often required to work very long days and told they are letting the side down if they refuse. NetUp is Tvind's scheme to persuade young volunteers to work for nothing.
Over 30 years hundreds of members of the Teachers Group have donated millions of pounds by making over earnings and property to Tvind. In some cases the money comes straight from salaries paid by outside bodies, which are moved directly into Tvind coffers - the teachers work for almost nothing. If they leave, they get no money back
Money quietly invested in fruit farms and plantations in Belize, Ecuador, Brazil, Fiji and elsewhere makes a handsome return. 'Aid projects' in Zimbabwe and other Third World countries are often thinly disguised farming ventures on land Tvind itself owns.
Since the 'salaries' paid to TG members are just theoretical, all sorts of creative accountancy becomes possible, provided someone is prepared to sign that they have 'received' the money. It could go into a Swiss bank account... Here is one example of how this can be used. Another was revealed by a Danish television programme in 2000.
Wherever it plants a so-called 'project', the first thing the Teachers Group does is apply for funding from other charities such as Save the Children or Unicef. . Sometimes it gets money and credibility. But how is the money used? Is there double funding? Does it always present an accurate picture. Payments by oil companies
One thing almost everybody connected with Tvind agrees on is that Tvind is extremely interested in money. But for whom?
One thing almost everybody connected with Tvind agrees on is that Tvind is extremely interested in money. But for whom?
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