Used clothes
2006 report exposes Tvind’s northern California operations
A hard-hitting 2006 investigation by San Francisco’s CBS 5 News exposes ‘Gaia Movement USA’, a used clothing collector then active in the Bay Area, and a related ‘volunteer training school’ called Campus California.
read moreBBC exposé of Tvind’s UK school for aid workers
Ex CICD student: “There’s nothing. There’s no information ― nothing. You’re constantly kept busy, and then you’re sent out on the streets ― in Hull or northern towns ― to fund-raise. By that I mean selling magazines. And literally begging in the streets.”
read moreDenmark’s UFF-Humana Gives Nearly Nothing to Africa
Only 1.5 percent of the proceeds from UFF-Humana’s collection of used clothing goes to development projects in Africa. So how does the Danish aid charity spend the remaining funds? TvindAlert investigates.
read morePortuguese TV news investigation roasts Humana Portugal
PORTUGUESE TV CHANNEL RTP has aired a new and damning investigation into Humana Portugal, calculating that the supposed not-for-profit development charity gives only 13% of its revenue in Portugal to humanitarian work.
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 moreLondon council removes ‘Gaia Movement’ box after complaint to MP
A ‘GAIA’ USED-CLOTHES DROP-IN BOX placed by the Teachers Group’s “Gaia Movement Trust” in London is to be removed following the intervention of the local MP. Greenwich Council will remove the box in Plumstead, after the intervention by Matthew Pennycook, MP
read moreNow Humana takes over Copenhagen as clothing bin contract goes to UFF
FIVE MUNICIPALITIES IN THE Copenhagen area are contracting the civic collection of used clothing to Humana People-to-People’s Danish division, UFF. The decision marks a further step forward in Denmark for the Tvind Teachers Group.
read moreHumana, UFF make deal with Kiwi supermarket chain in Denmark
The Danish supermarket chain KIWI has made a joint-venture agreement with UFF (Ulandshjælp fra Folk til Folk), the Danish branch of the Tvind Teachers Group’s International Humana Federation, based in Switzerland and Zimbabwe.
read moreExclusive: USAgain clothes bins denied by US city after ‘false information’ claims
USAgain, the Tvind Teachers Group used-clothes business in the USA, has been denied a licence to place collection bins in Minneapolis after allegedly giving ‘false information’, and because of ‘an association with international fugitives’.
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