A dossier on the Tvind Teachers Group. Are Humana People-to-People, Planet Aid, the Gaia Movement and DAPP siphoning off cash through tax havens? Is it a cult?
A dossier on the Tvind Teachers Group. Are Humana People-to-People, Planet Aid, the Gaia Movement and DAPP siphoning off cash through tax havens? Is it a cult?
Mogens Amdi Petersen and four other top leaders of the Teachers Group are wanted by the Danish police through Interpol. At least Petersen (pictured) is known to be at the group’s luxurious headquarters, TG Pacifico, in San Juan de las Pulgas, 30 miles south of Ensenada on Mexico’s Baja coast. But Mexican authorities will not arrest him. Read more.
From the Editor: Yes, TvindAlert is still here, despite the lack of new posts for a year. Not to make excuses, but 2018 has been a relatively slow time for news on Tvind. And everyone now at TvindAlert — all unpaid volunteers — works a full-time job elsewhere. Most significantly, the website’s
NEW POST, 'FROM THE ARCHIVES':
2006 report exposes Tvind's northern California operations - Tvind Alert
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A 2006 news investigation into ‘Gaia Movement USA’, a used clothing col...ALIVE & KICKING ...
Yes, TvindAlert is still here, despite the lack of new posts for a year. Not to make excuses, but 2018 has been a relatively slow time for news on Tvind. And everyone now at TvindAlert — all unpaid volunteers — works a full-time job elsewhere.
Most significantly, the website’s founders — journalists Michael Durham of England, and Frede Jakobsen of Denmark — had both left by early 2017, turning it over to me and the rest of the team.
We're looking for journalists to replace Mike and Frede. It won’t be easy.
Meanwhile, much has been happening behind the scenes. Research and outreach continue as usual. And we’ve been working on the English translation of key Danish language documentation on Tvind.
New investigative reports will come eventually. In addition, we’ll soon post still-relevant, archival material from the past two decades of TvindAlert, including the old ‘Humana Alert’.
We are pleased to report that a great deal of work has been done to improve the website itself. Here’s the story:
The original TvindAlert resided on a shared hosting plan in Scandinavia. The design was not mobile-friendly, and the layout and structure made it a bit confusing to navigate. Although the server was secure, the lack of server-side resources meant that it sometimes slowed when under pressure from denial-of-service attacks or attempts to compromise the site’s security.
The initial goal was to provide the new TvindAlert with a secure, stand-alone hosting service, and to redesign the site to make it both user and search engine friendly. Roughly half of the site’s traffic comes from mobile devices, so it was also important to make the content easily accessible on all screen sizes.
Since the first redesign, the site has been responsive and works well with all kinds of mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops.
The new server is in a London data-centre and has sufficient resources to deal with current and future projected traffic volumes.
The most recent redesign has increased the accessibility of the site and made it even easier to read on smaller devices whilst increasing the usable screen area on laptops and desktops.
The site’s structure remains the same but the underlying framework has been changed to provide a level of future-proofing not available with the previous software.
So check out our new website! www.tvindalert.com
Wade Larsen, editor
Washington state, USA
FIVE TVIND LEADERS ARE INTERPOL FUGITIVES wanted in their native Denmark for serious financial crimes, yet every year Danish municipalities pay millions to Tvind's 'social education' facilities in that country.
Tvind's social education empire under Danish media spotlight - Tvind Alert
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THE DANISH NEWSPAPER Kommunen has revealed that municipalities in Denmark p...FROM THE ARCHIVES: In August 2008 the BBC aired an investigation uncovering serious concerns about the College for International Cooperation and Development (CICD), a Tvind-run 'Travelling Folk High School' that's still active in East Yorkshire, England. The BBC story includes interviews with two of the dozen students who had walked out, all of them claiming they were being exploited.
Said one ex-student:
“There’s nothing. There’s no information ― nothing. You’re constantly kept busy, and then you’re sent out on the streets ― in Hull or northern towns ― to fundraise. By that I mean selling magazines. And literally begging in the streets.”
Also covered is the related used clothes collector, Planet Aid UK.In 2008 the BBC programme, “Look North,” aired an investigation uncovering serious concerns about the running of a private college still active in East Yorks...
MORE BAD NEWS ABOUT DAPP MALAWI, a controversial African aid program linked to an alleged cult called the Tvind Teachers Group.
A most compelling statement in the story comes from one of the plaintiffs, Kambani Kufandiko, who worked on USDA-funded DAPP projects in southern Africa between 2008 and 2012:
“The United States people, I think they should know the Teachers Group has used [U.S. taxpayers'] money in a way that was not the intended purpose, where ... they want to help poor farmers, they want to help Africans. It’s not like that. They’re helping somebody who is in Mexico building mansions.”
The last part of Mr. Kufandiko’s statement refers to Tvind’s founder, Mogens Amdi Petersen (in photo below), and his group's luxurious international headquarters, TG Pacifico, located on Mexico’s Baja coast. In 2016, the Danish news outlet, DR3, published the first photos of Petersen in 10 years, taken at the high-security Mexican compound.
By Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Workers at African aid program linked to alleged cult sue for back pay
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Workers for DAPP Malawi say a cult-like organization called the Teachers Gr...