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Vamdrup Efterskole        DENMARK

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Soefolkene (The Sailors)

In an old farm, this was originally Tvind's  'production school' where clothing was manufactured, and a 'children's village' with zoo.   It became a state-subsidised efterskole in 1977.     Accommodation for at least 50 students, and believed still to receive some state aid.

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Extract from "Tvind from the Inside", by Britta Rasmussen:

"The produktionsskolen (the production school) had moved from the old school at Kullerup to new, larger facilities on a farm in Vamdrup where they had put in rooms, toilets and a kitchen in the (former) stable and built a large  building for clothes production.

"Amdis visions for the creation of a large childrens village in Vamdrup meant that we could see our daily toils with the kids as something meaningful. We had a goal to work toward, something greater than diapers, cleaning and cooking. The childrens village was to run a zoo, to which the public would have access, and where guests could learn about the animals, their native countries and the people living back there. We were to construct copies of villages with houses, wells and paddocks for the animals. There were to be exhibits about both animals and humans, and the children were to look after the guests.

The plans for a childrens village in Vamdrup had been stopped temporarily due to (local) protests against the new zoning statutes (allowing for its creation). Instead, Amdi decided that we were to start a charter school at Tvind so that we could get public funding for the things we were doing. Meanwhile, we could also start looking for animals that we needed for the zoo: monkeys, elephants, horses, exotic fish and birds. The plans were far from given up on. The TG wasnt about to give us a bag of money, instead we had to earn it, or have the kids help us get the animals in other ways. They would learn much more from that.  We started a circle of people supporting Tvind, drew up bylaws, held a general meeting we elected a board of directors that, naturally, rehired us all as teachers. My parents were part of this circle. The kids were excited about getting animals and started daydreaming about riding on elephants and horses. We quickly got a hold of some rabbits, desert rats and budgies. Even though we had rabbit for dinner once in a while, our stock kept growing, pretty soon we had thirty of them all requiring water, feed, and a clean cage every day. The kids spent a lot of time looking after them.

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Leslie writes:    Byens Lys [Holsted] has  a working relationship with a Tvind school at Vamdrup situated some 30Km. away. By the way, this school has a widespread cannabis problem). Each day, one student resident at Holsted is driven to Vamdrup and two from Vamdrup  are brought back morning and evening - when they can be bothered to get up. I could never work out what good reason there was for this but I suspect it is a method of subsidising the "economy" of Byens Lys since Vamdrup is much larger (Vamdrup is an efterskole and has over 50 students in - theoretically secure - accommodation).

In normal Tvind fashion the head of each school sits on the board of the other school just to keep things in the family.

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Soefolkene (The Sailors)

In an old farm, this was originally Tvind's  'production school' where clothing was manufactured, and a 'children's village' with zoo.   It became a state-subsidised efterskole in 1977.     Accommodation for at least 50 students, and believed still to receive some state aid.

Extract from "Tvind from the Inside", by Britta Rasmussen:

"The produktionsskolen (the production school) had moved from the old school at Kullerup to new, larger facilities on a farm in Vamdrup where they had put in rooms, toilets and a kitchen in the (former) stable and built a large  building for clothes production.

"Amdis visions for the creation of a large childrens village in Vamdrup meant that we could see our daily toils with the kids as something meaningful. We had a goal to work toward, something greater than diapers, cleaning and cooking. The childrens village was to run a zoo, to which the public would have access, and where guests could learn about the animals, their native countries and the people living back there. We were to construct copies of villages with houses, wells and paddocks for the animals. There were to be exhibits about both animals and humans, and the children were to look after the guests.

The plans for a childrens village in Vamdrup had been stopped temporarily due to (local) protests against the new zoning statutes (allowing for its creation). Instead, Amdi decided that we were to start a charter school at Tvind so that we could get public funding for the things we were doing. Meanwhile, we could also start looking for animals that we needed for the zoo: monkeys, elephants, horses, exotic fish and birds. The plans were far from given up on. The TG wasnt about to give us a bag of money, instead we had to earn it, or have the kids help us get the animals in other ways. They would learn much more from that.  We started a circle of people supporting Tvind, drew up bylaws, held a general meeting we elected a board of directors that, naturally, rehired us all as teachers. My parents were part of this circle. The kids were excited about getting animals and started daydreaming about riding on elephants and horses. We quickly got a hold of some rabbits, desert rats and budgies. Even though we had rabbit for dinner once in a while, our stock kept growing, pretty soon we had thirty of them all requiring water, feed, and a clean cage every day. The kids spent a lot of time looking after them.

Leslie writes:    Byens Lys [Holsted] has  a working relationship with a Tvind school at Vamdrup situated some 30Km. away. By the way, this school has a widespread cannabis problem). Each day, one student resident at Holsted is driven to Vamdrup and two from Vamdrup  are brought back morning and evening - when they can be bothered to get up. I could never work out what good reason there was for this but I suspect it is a method of subsidising the "economy" of Byens Lys since Vamdrup is much larger (Vamdrup is an efterskole and has over 50 students in - theoretically secure - accommodation).

In normal Tvind fashion the head of each school sits on the board of the other school just to keep things in the family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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