Tvind is a global organization founded in Denmark in the 1970s that operates teacher training colleges, clothing collection businesses (Planet Aid, Humana), development projects, and various commercial enterprises across more than 50 countries. The organization has been the subject of investigations regarding its financial structure and labor practices.

Tvind Alert is an investigative journalism archive documenting the Tvind organization's global operations from 2001-2022. Founded by J. Durham and J. Jakobsen, the site preserves court documents, volunteer testimonies, media coverage, and investigative reports about the Tvind network.

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Tvind operates through a network of legally separate entities including teacher training colleges, NGOs (Humana People to People), clothing collection businesses (Planet Aid, USAgain), and development projects. Investigations have examined financial relationships and shared management among these entities.

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This archive preserves investigative journalism and public documents about the Tvind organization for research, transparency, and historical documentation. The original TvindAlert.com operated from 2001-2022 and was restored from Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshots in memory of journalist Wade Larsen.

Unicorn Trans World Trading

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Unicorn Trans World Trading closed

Amsterdam

Used clothes - now closed

Also known as Trans World Trading

Address: ground floor, Oude Zijds Voorburgwal 266, Amsterdam (the same address as other Dutch Tvind companies such as EC Trading)

This Dutch company traded in import and export of ' general goods' several years ago. Two prominent members of the Teachers Group were named as directors by Rotterdam Dagblad in 1995: Jonas Israel and Hans Joergen Lausten

Jonas Israel, born 1958, another senior Tvind financial manager, was also in the USA in the early 1990s and was associated with many of the same companies as Hansen. He was a director of All Europe Satellite Television Ltd, one of the companies cited in the Danish police charges.

More recently he was a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust, Switzerland, a company exposed as a scam on this website, and is now (2003) associated with McCorry and Co, Luyang, Malaysia - a timber trading company.

Hans Lautsen or Lautsten - more information follows

Lars Malte Hansen, born 1961, principal shareholder, is a former pupil at the DNS in Denmark and thus firmly associated with the Tvind Teachers Group. Mr Hansen had previously worked for Tvind in the United States - he had an address in North Miami Beach in 1991 - and he has also worked a Tvind clothes trader for Textiles Bougainville in Togo and Benin, west Africa, in around 1995.

Mr Hansen is reported to have been 'very close' to Flemming Gustaffson, director of the bankrupt and disgraced Tvind company EC Trading at the same Amsterdam address.

Hansen - now in business in the Baltic States - has contacted Tvind Alert to state that he no longer any connection with Tvind or the Teachers Group.

Joop Trompert, another long established member of the TG, was Hansen's 'number two' at Trans World Trading according to information sent to us. Trompert went on to work for the disgraced company EC Trading and now works for Humana Holland at Bunnik

Sources:

"At EC Trading the phone is answered with 'Unicorn Trans World Trading', registered in Amsterdam. Activities: international import and export of trade goods, supplying commissionary activities in trade in raw materials and other goods. Further Unicorn is in transport, stock and distribution. Shareholder is Lars Malte Hansen, born in Denmark and registered on an address in Togo. Former directors are Jonas Israel born in the United States and Hans Lautsten from Denmark. Brunklaus and Johanessen know both names. From the Tvind teacher-group."

[Source: Rotterdam Dagblad, 1995]

Amsterdam

Used clothes - now closed

Also known as Trans World Trading

Address: ground floor, Oude Zijds Voorburgwal 266, Amsterdam (the same address as other Dutch Tvind companies such as EC Trading)

Hans Lautsen or Lautsten - more information follows

Mr Hansen is reported to have been 'very close' to Flemming Gustaffson, director of the bankrupt and disgraced Tvind company EC Trading at the same Amsterdam address.

Hansen - now in business in the Baltic States - has contacted Tvind Alert to state that he no longer any connection with Tvind or the Teachers Group.

Sources:

[Source: Rotterdam Dagblad, 1995]

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