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.”
read moreTwo 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.
read moreU.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.
read moreUNESCO 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UNESCO has rescinded its prestigious education prize and severed ties with Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi, after UNICEF and the British government both cut off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.
read moreUSDA 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.
read morePlanet 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.
read moreThe 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.
read moreA 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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