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  ADPP Angola  

ADPP (Ajuda de Desenvolvimento de Povo para Povo) is the Teachers Group's development arm in Angola. There is no doubt many committed volunteers and teachers work with ADPP in Africa.

However, there are enough questions about the financing of ADPP in Angola to raise serious doubts about its transparency and real purpose.

ADPP runs schools, orphanages and projects in Angola. These initiatives are supposed to be funded by Humana in Europe, and from other donations.

BUT there are well-sourced allegations that money from Humana intended for work in Angola has been covertly returned to the Teachers Group economy in offshore accounts, instead of being spent on development work in Africa.

Information on Danish TV about Angola is one of the leading reasons for the Danish police investigation and trials of 2000-2007.

  Two scams  

  Britte Junge's story  

  The TG salary scam  

The fundamental means used by the Teachers Group to cream off money back to its own 'economy' is alleged to be the 'foreign salary scam.'

Development Instructor volunteers are unpaid. But Teachers Group members who are project leaders are nominally 'paid' quite large salaries - thought to be the equivalent in hard currency of United Nations salaries.

Since the TG project leaders have taken a pledge to work for the common good without pay, they never see the money. Instead it is returned to the Teachers Group coffers in offshore accounts.

Thus money raised by Humana and Gaia clothes sales apparently for aid work in Africa may not have been spent there and could have been used to finance property or commercial farms. Teachers have described covertly moving thousands of pounds in cash back to bank accounts in Denmark - see Britta Junge's story.

 

  The oil company scam  

Angola has a unique situation in southern Africa because it is rich in offshore oil deposits.

These oil fields are being exploited by US and European oil companies, with the agreement of the Angola government. This has given a unique opportunity to the Tvind Teachers Group, which is politically close to the Angolan government.

According to several different sources, the Angolan government has over the years given Tvind preferential treatment and awarded ADPP large sums of foreign oil money through the so-called 'social fund' operated by its oil ministry, Sonangol.

But has this windfall been used for the benefit of Angolans?

Not, again, according to former Tvind Teacher Britta Junge, who claims much of the money has been sent back to Denmark to the Teachers group economy, without the oil companies being any the wiser. See Britta Junge's story.

Britta Junge was a young Tvind Teacher working for ADPP Angola in the 1990s, when she claims she was asked to covertly carry large sums of money back from Angolan bank accounts to the Teachers Group 'economy' in Denmark.

The money was the product of selling clothes, salary payments, and donations by foreign oil companies.

Teachers were told it was part of leader Amdi Petersen's personal scheme. She believes some of the money could have been spent buying property or farms for the Teachers Group.

Read Britta Junge's story on this site

  The oil connection  

  ADPP and Sonangol  

  Who's who in Angola