Humana People-to-People Alert in the US

Under these logos, The Teachers Group commands a significant percentage of the second hand clothing market in the US. These are not all charitable enterprises.

Gaia and Planet Aid insist the proceeds go to support Humana projects in the Third World. Doubts, however, are constantly raised about how much of the money earned actually reaches aid projects (see below).

U'SAgain and Garson & Shaw are commercial recycling companies. All these enterprises - 'charity' and 'for-profit' - are closely related and there is a blurring of the picture in the Teacher's Group's complex financial network. Senior managers of all the companies are likely to be Tvind Teachers who maintain connections with the Tvind movement and its colleges in the US, Denmark, or Britain.

In late 2001, reporters from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten made an incredible discovery on an undercover visit to Fisher Island, (left) a luxury resort much frequented by reclusive billionaires off the Florida coast.

Police soon became interested in how the self-styled philanthropist had paid for the two apartments, plus six-figure golf club memberships for himself and his girlfriend, not to mention a $7m luxury yacht, the Butterfly McQueen, moored outside.

In early 2002, Petersen was arrested by

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An investigative website into the Humana People-to-People organisation and the international Tvind movement ... in the USA

 PLANET AID 

2006: Kansas City paper says most Planet Aid money does not reach charity

IRS records show Massachusetts-based Planet Aid supports only Tvind-controlled programs - and most money does not arrive in the developing world

2nd April 2006: The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Kansas, USA, says IRS records reveal hardly any of the money raised by Planet Aid clothes collections reaches charities in the developing world. Citing 2003 records, the paper says less than ten per cent of the $6.6m raised by Massachusetts-based Planet Aid went to developing countries. The paper interviewed Uli Stosch, manager of Planet Aid in Kansas City, who denied any impropriety.

Planet Aid, like Humana People-to-People, is part of the Tvind organisation, an alleged far-left cult, whose leaders are currently on trial in Europe for fraud and tax evasion.

Full story. [Source: Lawrence Journal-World, Kansas].

 CHARITY AND PROFIT  

How do we know that U'SAgain, Planet Aid and colleges like IICD are all closely connected? There are lots of clues. Here's one example. U'SAgain, a for-profit Tvind used clothes company, has a web site registered by Mattias Wallander in Illinois, USA. Massachusetts-based not-for-profit Planet Aid also has a website, and the email contact is matw@planetaid.org - also Mattias Wallander. The same Mr Wallander was also involved with the Tvind 'Institute for International Cooperation and Development' (IICD) programme, also in Massachusetts.

We know from insiders that as head of U'SAgain, Mr Wallander has often held meetings at his home near Chicago with Eva Neilsen, head of the Tvind not-for-profit Gaia. This is a common pattern in Tvind. Both Mr Wallander and Eva Neilsen are likely to be senior members of the Tvind Teachers Group in the USA. Mr Wallander's role as head of the commercial U'SAgain has been well documented, both by the Chicago Tribune and Time Magazine - his close association with the 'not-for profit' Planet Aid is not usually so widely appreciated

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 THE US COLLEGES  

The Teachers Group in the USA currently runs three colleges, in Massachusetts, Michigan and California. They specialise in Tvind's unique 'volunteering abroad' programmes, attracting idealistic gap year kids, school leavers and college drop outs to become 'Development Instructors' in Africa and the Third World.

According to reports, the colleges are run on typically doctrinaire TG lines, despite initial appearances. Volunteers are required to buy into the Tvind 'world view', work unpaid for other Teachers Group enterprises, and solicit money on the streets.

Finances, in fact, are a source of constant concern. Despite the hefty sign-up fees and all the 'fundraising', there just doesn't seem to be enough money around - where does it go? - to run the colleges properly. There have been many complaints about poor teaching and terrible organisation. Over the years there have been several rebellions by disillusioned students.

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US press reports

Lawrence Journal-World, Kansas (2nd April 2006): Investigation into Planet Aid.

The Pitch, Kansas (12th May 2005): Investigation into Planet Aid.

Sonoma News, California (13th Sept 2004): Story questioning link between Gaia bins and CCTG

Chicago Tribune (Feb 2004): Major two part investigation into Gaia recycling

Chicago Reader (31st October 2003): (unavailable)

Boston Globe (April 7th 2002): 'Planet Aid's Work Draws Worldwide Scrutiny'

Wisconsin State Journal (7th April 2002): Complaint about Gaia to city authorities.

Miami New Times (21st March 2002): Report on Amdi Petersen's links with Fisher Island.

Los Angeles Times (23rd Feb 2002): Report on arrest of Amdi Petersen.

Pioneer Press, Etna (May 2001): Cult-like group's offices raided by police.

Pioneer Press, Etna (21st March 2001): Has a cult come to Etna?

Boston Magazine (Oct 2000): 'Mission Control' - in-depth feature on the Teachers group in the USA

 

 

 

 

 

IICD Watch: Website critical of Humana's IICD colleges, based on analysis of comments to Humana Alert Guestbook 200-2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

The three Teachers Group Colleges in the USA

 

There are two Institutes of International Cooperation and Development (IICD):

IICD Massachusetts

IICD Michigan

 

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Campus California TG
(CCTG)

 THE USED CLOTHES ENTERPRISES  

GAIA

 HUMANA ON WALL STREET 

Meet Mikael Norling (right), a classic Teachers Group enigma. In the 1970s, as a young firebrand, he was notorious in Europe for his praise of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge dictator responsible for the death of millions in Cambodia's 'killing fields'.

Today Norling is still a supporter of Tvind, but he's moved with the times. Now he runs an office for Planet Aid on Wall Street.

 2001: A FUGITIVE IN A $6 MILLION APARTMENT  

In this exclusive retreat, they located two $6m dollar apartments that had been secretly bought by the Tvind Teachers Group. One was occupied by Mogens Amdi Petersen, founder of Humana and Tvind. The other was for his dog.

the FBI in Los Angeles on an international warrant, and faced extradition proceedings in the US alleging fraud and tax evasion. Petersen hired Robert Shapiro, the lawyer who successfully defended OJ Simpson.

However he was eventually extradited to Denmark where he is currently (2006) facing charges

By then Petersen had been officially regarded as 'missing' for 22 years. He had publicly cut his links with Tvind in 1978, claiming he he had retired from active politics and charity work to live abroad.

It now turns out the Teachers Group knew of his whereabouts all along - he had been secretly living in this Florida paradise for at least ten years.

of fraud and tax swindles involving a number of Tvind-run bank accounts, trust funds and allegedly fake charities. The case is expected to end in August 2006.

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