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Where is Tvind?

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Tvind is everywhere.

From Angola to Zimbabwe, via plenty of other countries in between, Tvind has a presence, either collecting money, stashing it away, recruiting 'Solidarity Workers', farming, trading or manufacturing.

In Europe, Tvind runs schools, colleges and teacher training colleges as well as UFF and Humana shops and clothes recycling banks, all of which earn it a small fortune.   Most schools are in Denmark, but there is a 'hotel' in the Norwegian Alps and a college in Britain - plus many shops.

Humana People-to-People logo

Solidarity workers come from all over the world  -   Europe, the United States, even Russia, China and Japan. Some 'train' in Denmark, others in Norway or the UK.  All these volunteers pay money in advance for their 'training', and are required to spend weeks raising yet more money

A similar pattern has been established in the United States, where Tvind's main outposts are the 'Institute of International Co-operation and Development' (IICD) in Massachusetts and Michigan, Campus California, Planet Aid, Gaia and U'SAgain (all over the place).  

IICD logo 

Planet Aid is the US version of Humana or UFF, collecting and trading in old clothes. (It also collects straight cash)  It began in the state of Massachusetts in 1997 and has since expanded into at least 16 states.   Planet Aid has also set up shop in Canada, with those familiar shops and recycling bins in Toronto.  Gaia is big in Chicago.

But there is more to Tvind in the US than publicly acknowledged.  In Miami, Florida, Tvind operated a large beachside administrative block, two $3m luxury apartments and a seagoing yacht,  which you did not read about in the brochures.

This is believed to have been the headquarters of a significant new south American operation and a bolt hole for Amdi Petersen.  Since Petersen's arrest the properties and yacht have been put up for sale; many of the south American properties remain

In developing countries, like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique, Tvind is a 'development charity', running 'aid projects' where the money raised in Europe and the United States is supposedly spent.  It has recently begun to expand into Central America, India and Borneo.

Most of the projects are called by the DAPP, ADPP or Humana People-to-People names.  Some are bush schools, training colleges, agricultural schemes or projects with names like 'Child Aid' and 'Children's Town', and there is also a 'Hope' Aids charity.

But behind the scenes  -  and you don't read about this on the web sites  -   Tvind also owns thousands of acres of plantations and farms in Third World countries where crops are commercially grown and profitably sold on world markets.  Tvind is the landlord and employer as well as the 'aid giver', and has sometimes been accused of 'neo-colonialism'.

In Zimbabwe, Tvind has built a new world headquarters which is so big that Mogens Amdi Petersen is once said to have boasted 'you could see it from the moon.'

Humana People-to-People world headquarters, Zimbabawe

There are other plantations, too, in places like St Lucia and Brazil, which have nothing to do with 'development' and do not feature in the brochures.  The best guess is that they just make a lot of money.

It is said to have a clothes factory in Morocco, and owns a number of boats.  It has a computer and furniture companies in China and India.   Most recently, it has begun trading in timber across the world.

Tvind has been doing so well lately that it is reported to have set up  -  in one form or another  -  in a host of new countries.   With the collapse of communism, it has found new trading outlets for old clothes in the former Eastern Europe and is attracting recruits from Poland, Romania, Czech, Slovakia and Slovenia.

It has also been spotted or set up shop  in such diverse countries as Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, Portugal and Fiji, wheeling and dealing  -  buying plantations, collecting old clothes, trading, and making new recruits  -  but mostly raising money.

With all that money washing about, Tvind has got to put it somewhere.  So it has companies and offshore bank accounts in all kinds of places, many of them tax havens such as Guernsey, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar and the Dutch Antilles.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that some of its most desirable and unadvertised properties have been in some of the sunniest parts of the world  -  such as the Cayman Islands, where it was reliably reported in the late 1980s to have a beachside villa.  As far as we know, it's still there.

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Tvind is everywhere.

From Angola to Zimbabwe, via plenty of other countries in between, Tvind has a presence, either collecting money, stashing it away, recruiting 'Solidarity Workers', farming, trading or manufacturing.

In Europe, Tvind runs schools, colleges and teacher training colleges as well as UFF and Humana shops and clothes recycling banks, all of which earn it a small fortune.   Most schools are in Denmark, but there is a 'hotel' in the Norwegian Alps and a college in Britain - plus many shops.

Humana People-to-People logo

Solidarity workers come from all over the world  -   Europe, the United States, even Russia, China and Japan. Some 'train' in Denmark, others in Norway or the UK.  All these volunteers pay money in advance for their 'training', and are required to spend weeks raising yet more money

A similar pattern has been established in the United States, where Tvind's main outposts are the 'Institute of International Co-operation and Development' (IICD) in Massachusetts and Michigan, Campus California, Planet Aid, Gaia and U'SAgain (all over the place).  

IICD logo 

Planet Aid is the US version of Humana or UFF, collecting and trading in old clothes. (It also collects straight cash)  It began in the state of Massachusetts in 1997 and has since expanded into at least 16 states.   Planet Aid has also set up shop in Canada, with those familiar shops and recycling bins in Toronto.  Gaia is big in Chicago.

But there is more to Tvind in the US than publicly acknowledged.  In Miami, Florida, Tvind operated a large beachside administrative block, two $3m luxury apartments and a seagoing yacht,  which you did not read about in the brochures.

This is believed to have been the headquarters of a significant new south American operation and a bolt hole for Amdi Petersen.  Since Petersen's arrest the properties and yacht have been put up for sale; many of the south American properties remain

In developing countries, like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique, Tvind is a 'development charity', running 'aid projects' where the money raised in Europe and the United States is supposedly spent.  It has recently begun to expand into Central America, India and Borneo.

Most of the projects are called by the DAPP, ADPP or Humana People-to-People names.  Some are bush schools, training colleges, agricultural schemes or projects with names like 'Child Aid' and 'Children's Town', and there is also a 'Hope' Aids charity.

But behind the scenes  -  and you don't read about this on the web sites  -   Tvind also owns thousands of acres of plantations and farms in Third World countries where crops are commercially grown and profitably sold on world markets.  Tvind is the landlord and employer as well as the 'aid giver', and has sometimes been accused of 'neo-colonialism'.

In Zimbabwe, Tvind has built a new world headquarters which is so big that Mogens Amdi Petersen is once said to have boasted 'you could see it from the moon.'

Humana People-to-People world headquarters, Zimbabawe

There are other plantations, too, in places like St Lucia and Brazil, which have nothing to do with 'development' and do not feature in the brochures.  The best guess is that they just make a lot of money.

It is said to have a clothes factory in Morocco, and owns a number of boats.  It has a computer and furniture companies in China and India.   Most recently, it has begun trading in timber across the world.

Tvind has been doing so well lately that it is reported to have set up  -  in one form or another  -  in a host of new countries.   With the collapse of communism, it has found new trading outlets for old clothes in the former Eastern Europe and is attracting recruits from Poland, Romania, Czech, Slovakia and Slovenia.

It has also been spotted or set up shop  in such diverse countries as Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, Portugal and Fiji, wheeling and dealing  -  buying plantations, collecting old clothes, trading, and making new recruits  -  but mostly raising money.

With all that money washing about, Tvind has got to put it somewhere.  So it has companies and offshore bank accounts in all kinds of places, many of them tax havens such as Guernsey, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar and the Dutch Antilles.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that some of its most desirable and unadvertised properties have been in some of the sunniest parts of the world  -  such as the Cayman Islands, where it was reliably reported in the late 1980s to have a beachside villa.  As far as we know, it's still there.

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