Humana Holland

Stichting Humana Hergebruik

Dissolved late 2001

(Humana Holland Recycling)

One of two Humana foundations in Holland  -  this one is the large recycling operation in Bunnik, with more than 60 employees.

See also:   Garson & Shaw,  London
                    Stichting Humana Fondsenwerving  (Humana Holland Fundraising)
                    Humana Transport
                    Foundation Humana

Chairman:  Jesper Wohlert (he lives in Spain in Getafe)
Secretary:   Kre-Sven Dahne (lives in Berlin)
Treasurer;    Erik Dorph-Jensen (lives in Spain too)

Board members:
Robbert van Baaren
Jytte Nielsen (also spokeswoman of Humana People to People)

Humana Holland and export to eastern Europe

In 1998, Humana Holland asked the Dutch Ministry of the Environment for permission to export unsorted textiles,  through the company Textile Transformation EC Trading BV, but got no permission at that time.

A correspondent writes:  Every week Eastern European trucks loaded with clothes are coming to Humana in Bunnik and drive to Dnjepropetrovsk in Ukraine: there is Holland House, the firm on Jersey...... It seems that clothes from Belgium also go to Bunnik and then to Ukraine.

A correspondent writes:

October 2001:  "....More than 60 people are employed by the association and they frankly dont care if Humana is corrupted or not as long as they received their wages.   Humana creates jobs and have a benefic activity in clothes recycling.   What I found not acceptable is that they pretend to be an humanitarian association while they work as a private company.   Under the praiseworthy aim of collecting the most clothes they can and donate it to their ADDP programs in Angola and Zambia, they are looking for their own profit.     If not why is the money going to Jersey ?.....

"Humana is working with GARSON & SHAW.    G&S is a sale agency located in London.   From what I heard , there is only a computer there which send faxes to a place in Jersey Islands.  They take a commission on the amount of sales. This company is very close to Humana and seems to be the new way of tax evasion since EC Trading closed down (which apparently has closed without real reasons to do it except to mix up the tracks).

"I know something that could easily be proved. For around 1 year now, there is a law in Netherlands coming from the European Union which forbid the sales of waste outside of the community. The most important market of Humana is the sale of non sorted clothes to Russia, Ukraine and others East countries. As they didnt want to loose this market and while waiting to obtain a special license for doing it, they acted outside legality.

During several months, they sent this kind of product through Humana Berlin.  On the paper, Humana Bunnik sold the goods to Humana Berlin which sold it after to the Russian customer. In reality, trucks went directly from Netherlands to Russia and get customs papers in a town closed to the border. After a few months it become dangerous as Germany started to look over Humana Berlin business. Thus Humana Bunnik used another intermediate : Spaarmann, a German logistics company (www.spaarmann.de).

Well, is everything legal in what I described ? I let you judge. But Im sure there is some wrong in their business. A charity organization can not act like that. I d like to work in the humanitarian field and Im training for it, I can not bear that some people use the status of non-profit organization and trick donators to make money. I dont want Humana to close down in Netherlands, I consider that they are doing a good job : all the clothes they collect would have been thrown away otherwise, development project wouldnt have been financed and Humana brings economic activity in the country. Its just that they should be closely watched. And that the job of authorities and journalists."   Dutch concerned.

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Humana Holland