Volunteers abroad
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 moreAid Workers at Tvind-linked DAPP Malawi sue for back pay
“[Americans] should know the Teachers Group has used [U.S. taxpayers’] money in a way that was not the intended purpose, where … they want to help poor farmers, they want to help Africans. It’s not like that. They’re helping somebody who is in Mexico building mansions.”
read moreDoes the TG make money from its projects abroad?
Hundreds of foreign aid schemes in Africa, India and other parts of the developing world are actually run by the Teachers Group.
These projects attract millions of dollars in funding from business, international corporations, governments, charities, wealthy individuals and public donations.
read moreFact file: Humana People-to-People
Humana People-to-People (HPP) is a ‘development charity’ founded in the 1970s by Amdi Petersen and the original members of the Tvind Teachers Group. It collects used clothing — ‘for foreign aid and environment projects’ — using volunteers recruited through Tvind... read moreNews: Two new African countries join the ’empire’
The Tvind Teachers Group ’empire’ has grown even bigger with the addition of two new countries in Africa. Humana People to People (HPP) is now firmly established in…
read moreOpinion: The volunteering business
The Teachers Group attracts volunteers from across the world to work on foreign development projects.
What many fail to understand is that they will have to ‘train’ with the Teachers Group first.
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