DRH Bustrup

There is also an Efterskole at Bustrup

A correspondent writes:   Bustrup is an HPP school.. it was bought by the A-S prop for 6 billion dollars, and there isn't a teacher or student there yet because they haven't had a teacher there yet.. but there is a small school running there.. and they are renovating the school in order to make it an HPP training school, and there is somebody who is there working for the netup (financial aid program) to help pay his tuition to come to my old school (IICD-MI) for the Guatemala team.  Though I don't know if he heard that the project has been downsized to only 2 DI's and training is now only at the IICD-MA.  I don't remember the director's name at Bustrup.  But I do know that they have brand new athletic facilities inside the school and are working to do MAJOR renovations to make it a beautiful school.  Though the director of IICD-MA told me that it is not a training school, that was the impression I was given for why they were doing all those expensive renovations, and they (the ladies in charge there) told me that there wasn't a teacher there yet but there have been students.... and the impression I got was that they were going to get a teacher so that students wouldn't have to leave because there wasn't one.

Sara's story

Sara, a student at IICD Michigan,  visited Bustrup in 2002 and mentions it in her story.  "HPP believes that PEOPLE can help PEOPLE. What a concept!    But when I came back from Denmark after seeing the EXPENSIVE property out there that had in one of the schools absolutely no teachers or DI's (Bustrup) I was beginning to wonder what the true purpose of this organization was?  Was it a real estate company?"

She left as a volunteer in 2002.  " It was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make and I can't honestly tell you right now that I am fully happy to be back home away from IICD-MI.......I want potential volunteers to understand that you must be CRITICAL of everything that goes on, and realize even though YOU may think you're doing good.. that YOUR actions may be part of and helping something that is NOT!!!!!"

31st July 2002:  A reader comments:

This site needs correcting. The Bustrup school centre on the map is wrongly located. It should be more inland and further north, equidistant from the towns of Struer and Skive.
'Efterskole' does not equate to 'Small School'. The efterskoles are regular day and boarding schools, though some 'maladjusted' students may be admitted. The small schools are exclusively for 'maladjusted' students. There are a couple of small schools in the vicinity of Bustrup efterskole. I belive the efterskole there is an International Efterskole. By the way, Bustrup is not 'staffed by Tvind volunteers'. It is run by long term TG members, employed staff and occasional volunteers. It's not correct to give the impression that your piece gives. Sorry if I'm being pedantic but it's important to be correct and fair. The DRH at Bustrup is operational

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There is also a DRH college at Bustrup

 Ben's story
Volunteer teacher, Red House School and Bustrup Efterskole, 1993

"It didn't start very auspiciously.  After a 24-hour coach journey I found myself alone one evening in rhus bus station - they hadn't (as promised) come to meet me.....a number of things didn't seem right.  The headteacher - who was otherwise very friendly - warned me not to read the local newspapers....The doubts were creeping in by that stage, and from that it got worse."

Leif Gunnar Lie's MA Thesis 1996
Journalism student, City University, London, 1995-6

"In Denmark, controversy has raged for almost 20 years. Since the mid-Seventies, after an initial wave of good publicity, Tvind has been very controversial. One girl, who was interviewed by the Information newspaper in 1979 about her stay in Bustrup Efterskole, said many things which defectors still say in the Nineties: "One learns to shut up at the right moments because, if you don't, it can get very unpleasant. You have to say what the school wants you to, otherwise you get mashed." 

A correspondent writes (Dec 2001):    To whom it may concern.   When I first saw your website, I thought what a load of crap, but after quitting the school at Bustrup last week, and everything that has happened in between, I now believe your information presented.    I wish I had seen this site before joining Humana.  Nicky Klomp.