Tvind Alert
Tvind assets: land, projects, children's homes,
teacher training colleges, a catering company,
oil company connections.
The Sonangol-ADPP oil connection
Multinational oil drilling companies such as Chevron are paying millions of dollars to Tvind in Angola. Tvind Alert has received detailed information from reliable sources in Angola - who work with NGOs there - about large sums of money being 'covertly' paid to ADPP (Tvind's southern African 'charity') by multinational oil companies. The money is paid by oil multinationals working in Angola in 'Social Bonus Fund' payments to Sonagol, the government-controlled Angolan oil company. Read the full story
A correspondent writes: "ADPP does three main things in Angola: teacher training (moderately well), health posts (extremely badly)........and income generating activities (moderately well).....There are strong indications that ADPP is very close to the allegedly corrupt Angolan government. Basically, they make things very easy for Sonangol and do more or less what Sonangol wants"
Companies
Catering company
Projects and schools
Volunteers, please send any information and stories about the quality of these programmes.
Children's school, Caxito, Bengo Province. This is where ADPP began in Angola in 1986. In May 2001 60 children were kidnapped by Unita guerillas. They were later found safe.
Quissala Orphans Village, Huambo province.
In July 2000 21 boys were abducted . Both of these kidnappings have
been curiously omitted from the
homepage of ADPP Angola. Link: www.reliefweb.int
(OCHA, the "Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs" of the UN)
DNS Teacher Training Colleges
DNS Cabinda
DNS Huambo / Quissala Teacher Training College
Benguela Teacher Training College
Stories
See also: the stories
Nick's story
Nick Moss, a young British student, travelled to Angola
with ADPP in 1996 after several months with Tvind in Norway.
He almost died of malaria. He was so appalled at the
lack of care for volunteers in a dangerous situation and the poor
organisation of the 'project' that he wrote this account.
Does Oxfam give money to ADPP Angola (as ADPP claim?)
http://www2.ebonet.net/adpp/parceiros/base.htm
>>Thanks for your email. I have
looked into our records for payments made
to >>partner organisations in Angola/Benguela under
the titles ADPP, the full
>>name "Ajuda de desenvolvimento de povo para povo",
the project name
"Escola>>de professores do futuro em Benguela":
>>
>>Nothing came up and therefore we can safely say that we
have not
>>transferred funds to this organisation. However,
there is still an
outside >>possibility that something was given in kind to
that particular school
>>(seems like a teacher's training centre) or was part of
of a wider
project.>>It seems unlikely that this would be the case as
our programme in Angola,
>>including Benguela, is almost solely dedicated to the
provision of water
>>and sanitation with some involvement in providing food
security.
>>
>>I hope this helps to put your mind at rest, if you have
any other
questions >>about our work please do contact us.
>>
>>With best wishes
>>David Tucker
>> Oxfam GB Supporter Services
>> Switchboard tel: +44 (0)1865 311311
>> Direct tel:
+44 (0)1865 312610
>> Fax:
+44 (0)1865 312452
>> E-mail:
oxfam@oxfam.org.uk
>>..Website:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk