UFF Norway

U-landshjelp fra Folk til Folk i Norge,
Klfta Parken,
2040 Klfta,
Norway
Tel: +47 63 87 59 35
Fax: +47 63 87 44 56
uffno@os.telia.no

Chairman Jesper Pedersen  (2001)

Vice.chairman Rosa Marielle Fried (2001)

Member of the board Sigrid Kristina Johansson (2001)

Oslo UFF were suppliers of Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading b.v of Holland (went bankrupt 2000)

As of 2000 it had in Norway:  two shops, clothes boxes, door-to-door collections, street selling, and a clothes sorting centre.   The shops were at  Storgata 1 and 7.   Two more were planned, in Bergen and elsewhere.  Many of the clothes collected here are believed to be sold in Poland and Russia.

A correspondent writes:   (2000)       "In Norway they have two shops in Storgata, No.1 and No.7 .   The No.1 shop makes about 12.000 Nkr per day and on Saturdays can make 20.000 Nkr.   The No.2 shop makes 10.000 Nkr per day and on Saturdays can make 18.000 Nkr.    I dont know where the money goes..they say that 25% goes to Africa and all the rest is to pay employees and all the costs.   It's true that they sell clothes in Russia and Poland because the sorting center sorts clothes to them.   They want to open more 3 shops in Russia by 2004.   In Norway theyll open one this year in Bergen and another one next year."

Attempts have been made to ban UFF from collecting  -   with mixed success.   "Bans [on UFF clothes collection boxes]  are in force In the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Bergen and the Norwegian government has stopped funding the Travelling High School, a branch of the Tvind movement"

       `                [Source: The Guardian, 1993]