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Why you should be concerned about Tvind schools:
1. The Programme - what teaching and social methods are used?
2. Allegations of brainwashing and bullying
3. Relative isolation in mountains or forest.
4. Money must be paid in advance.
5. Students have to fundraise and find more recruits. Lots of time spent on 'tasks' with little privacy
6. Use of untrained, unpaid or poorly paid volunteers and assistants
7. Allegedly poor resources and teaching programme
8. Tvind is the only 'aid agency' which charges untrained volunteers so much money up front for such long training, to 'volunteer' in the Third World.
9. Lack of transparency and financial openness
10. Can be hard to get your money back when you leave
11 Many Tvind schools in England and Denmark have been closed by the authorities.
Tvind runs dozens of schools, colleges and 'institutes' all over the world. It advertises widely in newspapers, by leaflet drops and on the Internet, attracting thousands of older high school leavers.
In Europe, the United States, South Africa, the Caribbean and China, its 14 colleges purport to train students for volunteer work in the third world. Students have to pay up front for their education, then to spend much of their time earning yet more money by fund raising on the streets - a total of several thousand dollars - but at the end of the day the 'qualification' they receive is worthless. It is not recognised by any government or aid agency.
There are many accounts on this web site
from students in Europe who believe they have been exploited, abused or
even subjected to crude brainwashing - click here to read
personal testimonies.
More about other Tvind schools
Tvind recycling computers for its colleges
Institute for International
Cooperation and Development (IICD)
(Williamstown and Dowagiac)
The Necessary Teacher Training
College, Tvind
The Travelling Folk High Schools
(at Tvind, Holsted,
Juelsminde, South Sealand, Bogense, Nebbegard and Bustrup)
College for
International Cooperation and Development (CICD)
(Hull)
The One
World Volunteer Institute
(Lillehammer)
South
Africa
China
Caribbean
India
Japan
Zimbabwe
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Campus Africa TG
KwaZulu-Natal
Experimental College 
Yunnan Institute
for Development
Caribbean
India
Japan
Zimbabwe
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Campus Africa TG
India
Japan
Zimbabwe
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Campus Africa TG
Zimbabwe
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Campus Africa TG
Campus Africa TG
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