Planet Aid
Reveal News speaks up after 3-year lawsuit by Planet Aid
Reveal News: “Planet Aid’s actions in its lawsuit against Reveal are a manifest example of what deep-pocketed interests can do to a news organization even when the facts are on the journalists’ side.”
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Two federal investigations target ‘Planet Aid’, even as official funding continues
Planet Aid is being investigated by the USDA’s Office of Inspector General, and the US Department of Justice, according to government documents obtained by Reveal News.
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U.S. humanitarian aid follows ‘twisted access path’ to Tvind’s coffers
Reveal News publishes list of people, groups and relationships mapping flow of U.S. taxpayer funding obtained by U.S.-based Planet Aid to Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) in southern Africa, and then to a private trust in Switzerland.
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UNESCO revokes prize money to controversial African aid group
UNESCO has rescinded its prestigious education prize and severed ties with Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi, after UNICEF and the British government both cut off funding to the organisation following allegations of fraud.
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USDA says it was unaware of ‘Planet Aid’ controversies. Documents show otherwise.
The USDA has since 2004 granted over $133 million to ‘Planet Aid’, despite warnings that the charity is linked to an alleged cult whose leaders are on Interpol’s global most-wanted list. The USDA insists that it never knew. But agency records obtained by Reveal News show otherwise.
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Planet Aid under pressure after US radio investigation accuses it of playing $130M ‘shell game’ in Africa
Listen to the broadcast ‘Alleged Cult Leader Plays Shell Game with US Foreign Aid’ by the Center for Investigative Reporting in the USA, which has spent more than a year digging into Planet Aid Inc and the Tvind Teachers Group.
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The ten charities that always work together
The ten names the Teachers Group uses for its charities and good causes. They are all apparent good and progressive causes. All are part of the Teachers Group and are controlled by it. They tend to work together, internationally, on several levels.
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A to Z of Teachers Group used clothes enterprises worldwide
1. Planet Aid – in the U.S., an enormous, ‘nonprofit’, used clothes re-selling enterprise with yellow donation bins across the country. In Britain, Planet Aid UK is a smaller, for-profit company. Both are linked to a Swiss joint-stock company. 2. Humana... read more
“Planet Aid legal action will swamp USA with bins”
The Los Angeles Times reports on legal action being taken by Planet Aid against several US cities, which it says could lead to communities being ‘swamped’ by unwanted charity collection bins
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Where’s Amdi? Let’s ask Mikael Norling of Planet Aid
Mikael Norling has been a supporter of the Tvind Teachers Group for more than 35 years. He is the most senior member of the organisation in the USA. He was in at the start, one of 131 people who in 1977 signed the deed for a trust fund that in Danish was called Den... read more
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Planet Aid lawsuit against Reveal dismissed by judge | Reveal
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Tvind’s fugitive kingpin filmed while shopping in Mexico - Tvind Alert
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New video of fugitive Tvind leader, Amdi Petersen, and 2 of his aides shopp...
Reveal has been fighting a lawsuit for three years. Now we’re speaking up about it
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After our reporting raised serious questions about an organization that has...