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Tvind’s ‘Travelling Folk High Schools’ worldwide
Aug 25, 2014
Tvind’s ‘travelling folk high schools’ were created in the 1970s to send teachers and students together to Third World countries, hoping to help the poor. Known as the ‘DRH Movement’ (Den Rejsende Højskole in Danish), the schools have elicited many complaints from former students, with allegations ranging from low standards of ‘training’ to dire living conditions, unreasonable work hours, bullying and even a ‘cult-like’ atmosphere.
read moreLars’s story: I was in the USA, and I was in a cult
Oct 9, 2003
Lars, 2003: It took me two years to be able to write this. I haven’t been able to deal with all the emotions since I drove off the hill at IICD, Williamstown in the summer of 1998 …
read moreZahara Heckscher: Volunteered with IICD in Zambia
Nov 5, 2000
Our first day in the field, we were approached by a group of Zambian farmers who told us that the project had stolen their land. We [later] discovered that the Zambian workers on the project were applying pesticides on the project’s garden, without training or protective gear.
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