CICD
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 17:05 |
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Vabatahtlikuks Aafrikasse!
CICD (College for International Co-operation and Development) ja Humana People to People liikumine otsivad vabatahtlikke.
Meie programmid:
*Lasteabi
*Eelkoolid
*HIV/AIDS
*Keskkond ja puude istutamine
*Sotsiaaltoo tanavalastega
*Haridus
Eelnevaid kvalifikatsioone ei ole vaja, vabatahtlik peab olema vanem kui 18, tookas ja motiveeritud.
Programm kestab 14 kuud
*6 kuud valjaopet Inglismaal
*6 kuud arengutood Aafrikas
*2 kuud informatsioonitood (omandatu jagamist uute vabatahtlikega)
Kuue kuu jooksul Inglismaal 6pitakse sihtriigi keelt (nt Mosambiiki minnes portugali keelt),
kultuurilist-, sotsiaalset- ja ajaloolist tausta, saadakse praktilisi
teadmisi jne.
>Valja6pe on kyll tasuline - 250 inglise naela kuus - kuid see on voimalik teenida nelja kuuga, tootades
keskkonnaprojektis GAIA. See h6lmab
kasutatud riiete korjamist ja pakkimist ning siis uuesti kasutamisele
suunamist, kuid samuti kontoritood ja praktiliste teadmiste omandamist.
Lisainfo eesti keeles kristiina.cicd@mail.ee
inglise keeles marie@cicd-volunteerinafrica.org
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celtic
Oman isiklikku arvamust... andke mulle andeks.      Postitusi: 721
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 21:19 |
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alustaks ikka eestist oma samariitlase tegevust. selle asemel et neegreid toita toitke parem oma vendade õdede lapsi kes tänavatel prügikastidest süüa
otsivad ja bussides trollides sente kerjavad...
Risttee
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dex
;)     Postitusi: 990
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 21:45 |
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Celticuga nõus.
Mis meil tolle aafrikaga asja. Ise paljunevad seal nagu jänesed hoolimata sellest, et midagi süüa ei ole.
dex
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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anahid
südamlik ja sügisene       Postitusi: 1022
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 21:51 |
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nu ja teised mõtlevad ka...et mis meil selle Eestiga asja...las raisad surevad....
seda võiks vast siis öelda kui Eesti julgel rinnal ise ei kasutaks ühtegi pakikest
Asjast rääkimine ei tee veel asjameheks.
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 23:11 |
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Kurat!
Pange oma turismibüroole ometigi teine nimi!
Ära tüütab! Aidsiennetust võib edukalt ka eestis teha, tänavalapsi on meil ka piisavalt! Ma saan aru küll,et kodust on kergem rull jooksma panna ,kui
teatad, et "ma lähen aarikasse õnnetuid neegreid päästma".
Ei viitsi rohkem sõimata.
Minu isiklik def:HELL-Heast Elust Lolliks Läinud
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dex
;)     Postitusi: 990
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 23:17 |
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Irw @ kodust kergem rull jooksma panna . Seda ma siiski ei usu, emadel isadel ikka natuke rohkem seda kainet mõistust - ei saada nad miskit oma
võsukesi kuhugi aafrikasse.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 14.05.2005 kell 23:27 |
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Küll saadavad ! Loe Kroonikat SLHommikulehte rohkem! 
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dex
;)     Postitusi: 990
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| postitatud 15.05.2005 kell 01:12 |
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Ükskõik mis infot mul ka vaja poleks - viimane koht kust ma seda otsima hakkan on meditsiiniajakiri kroonika.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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li-li
pensil;)         Naine Postitusi: 7776
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| postitatud 15.05.2005 kell 05:25 |
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Asjalikud kriitikud, tehke oma tuba korda.....kus on kodanikualgatus inimesed kes on oma projekti sinnani saanud, et asi ära teha vajavad
vabatahtlike, mitte teie haledat soigumist
Mina võin panna rahulikult käe südamele, et teen vabatahtlikuna päris mitmel rindel sellist tööd ja ei kurda selle üle, et MEIL EESTIS samaarlus olex
olematu. Tehke ise ja kritiseerige siis!!!!
armastuse maagiline arv
on üksteist
veel pole hilja
hakata armastama
/Ott Arder/
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sigar
Algaja    Postitusi: 27
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| postitatud 15.05.2005 kell 10:51 |
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kas to pole mitte veid räpane äri, heategevuse sildi varjus käib suuremahuline kasumijaht?
selline mulje jäänud
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ZyOn
Suhtlemisaldis     Mees Postitusi: 831
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| postitatud 15.05.2005 kell 11:07 |
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Minuteada need "heategevad" üritused töötavad hoopis sellise süsteemiga, et siit ida-euroopast viiakse miskid nn "neegrid"
kuskile läände "õppustele", seal pannakse siis oma õpinguid välja teenima, ehk kerjama ja miskeid vanu riided pähe määrima kellegile, nagu
mustlased. Aafrikasse keegi ei jõuagi Maailmas on selliseid lollide pügamise ärisid ja heategelikke organisatsioone niiet tapab, ja inimesed aina
langevad õnge
It's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way.
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uduuudu
Algaja    Postitusi: 51
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 04:39 |
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Enne "minuteadat" osta mõni Briti leht ja loe välja millega tegu.
Päris sageli kajastatakse.
Ma pigem väntaks vastu kõrvu ikkagi neile, kes samaaritsevad aafriklaste pärast, ise perseli eesti mudast pärit.
Punnitaks parem koduse elu-olu nimel.
Kasutajanimigi vaid ühekordseks reklaamiks välja mõeldud.
Võtaks parem oma mail.ee adrega Tallinna tänavate asfalteerimise nimel miskit ette.
Võimidaiganes......
see ei ole minu nägu, selle vist on teinud kägu.......
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 07:15 |
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Link CICD kodulehele, mis selgitab nii mõndagi. Ja puhta maakeeles
[url=http://www.cicd-volunteerinafrica.org/TextPage.asp?TxtID=303&SubMenuItemID=100&MenuItemID=19]>>>>>Link<<<<<
[/url]
Lingid EE arhiivi- veidi kogemusi
[url=http://www.ekspress.ee/viewdoc/57337EF77D331395C2256EA60042E3FE]>>>>>Link 1<<<<<
[/url]>>>>>Link 2<<<<<
>>>>>Link 3<<<<<
/me soovitab lugeda. Ehk on siis ka minu ärritus paremini mõistetav 
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dillinger
Kollanokk       Postitusi: 4670
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 08:48 |
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Keegi ei roniks aafrikasse ebasanitaarsetesse tingimustesse ja sõjaseisukorras riikidesse kui seal poleks suured uurimata ja raskelt kättesaadavad
toorainevarud. Puhas vorst vorsti vastu poliitika.
Üllad ideed on bluff!
TJ
Mõttega seks on tõepoolest parim!
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JoanMadou
pixie      Postitusi: 1001
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 10:05 |
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Antud skeemi kohta ei oska midagi arvata. Mina kaasa ei läheks, korralike tuntud rahvusvaheliste organisatsioonidega on ikkagi palju palju kindlam.
Aga sellest ei saa ma aru miks arvatakse et aafrikasse vabatahtlikuks ei tasu minna kuni tallinna asfaldis auke on. Täiesti li-liga nõus - neid
inimesi kes samariitlusega ei tegelegi on palju, rääkige nendega tallinna aukudest või ükskõik millest mis abikäsi vajab. Miks riielda nendega kes on
juba otsustanud midagi kaasinimeste heaks teha, olgu siis siin või aafrikas?
Let's go save the world guys!
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 10:19 |
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Ei, miks mitte. Kui inimene on spetsialist mingil alal. Näiteks on mingi saksa seeniorite-konsultantide liikumine. Aga teedeehituse õpetamine teistele
enda teeaukude taustal oleks ka siis koomiline.
Isiklik suhteliselt negatiivne suhtumine baseerub 80-ndate lõpus ja 90-ndate alguses eestis nähtud lääne vabatahtlikel, kes tulid umbes sellise
sõnumiga, et maakera on ümmargune ja elekter on ka olemas. Absoluutne ettevalmistuse puudus ühesõnaga. Keeleõpetajatena oli neist küll muidu tolku.
Mittetulundusühing, kes tegeleb antud pügamisskeemi paljastamisega: http://www.tvindalert.com/
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hestia
pilvedes       Postitusi: 1288
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| postitatud 27.05.2005 kell 13:41 |
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miks mitte? see ju kogemus, mida võibolla kord elus kogeda saab ja samas oleks võimalik oma elus ka midagi kasulikku teha, eriti veel kui see tuleks
südamest
ühe koha peal seistes uut horisonti ei avasta!
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 09:49 |
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No kui mingi masohhist olla, siis muidugi. Naisterahvastel on võimalik ennast ka kusagile seksiorjaks sokutada, meha ei taha keegi.
Jääbki üle ainult üle Tvindi impeerium. Paned aastakese fundraising-ut ja ongi tõepoolest käes täiesti ainulaadne kogemus. 
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CICD
Algaja   Naine Postitusi: 2
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 10:49 |
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kas kellelgi on isiklikke kogemusi?
enne s6imamist v6ibolla m6tleks vaheke, kui palju sa ikka tead asjast. kui ise ei ole kohal kainud, ei ole mingit 6igust asja maha teha. yldiselt on
enamik maailma suuri heategevusorganisatsioone korrupteerunud, see on paratamatus (nt ka ylipositiivse reputatsiooniga punane rist). kuid kui see on
ainus voimalus, kuidas paaseda aafrikasse (olgu siis pohjuseks missioonitunne, seiklusejanu voi mis iganes), siis...
edu koigile tigetsejatele ja tahaks naha, paljud neist tallinna auklike teede jaoks oma elu jooksul midagi ara teevad
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Lumeleopard
Bännitud Postitusi: 822
Registreeritud: 06.01.2005 Viimane külastus: 21.08.2005 Asukoht: Austraalia Otsib: lõbusat äraolemist Kasutaja ei ole foorumis
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 14:10 |
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Ma arvan, et asi on huvitav mitte see mustade abistamise idee pärast vaid selle poolest, et saab sõita ja maailma vaadata...
Algul Inglismaad ja siis Aafrikat ka.
Arvan, et ka palju huvitavaid valgenahalisi seal leidub
Ja kui tegu on veel eestlastega, siis kohalikud eestlased on ju ka huvitatud suhtlemistest....
Ja luban, et eestlasi leidub kõikjal....
Ja Aafrika on kena manner.
isegi läheks, kui poleks juba seotud
See ju priipilet reisimiseks
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uduuudu
Algaja    Postitusi: 51
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 14:57 |
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Tööd leiab tõesti igal pool.
Eestlasi on kah igas maakeranurgas.
*Tallinna tänavatele on maha saand jäetud lõhkisõidetud kumme, parkimistrahve ja aastamakse, ka tööd.
*Rassist pole, aga mustade banaanivabariikluslik kombelõtvus ajab oksele.
*Esimene asi, mida tumedanahalised Euroopast otsivad, on tugiraha, mitte töö!
*Enamik valgenahalisi liigub Aafrikas siiski omakasupüüdlikel eesmärkidel.
*Ja misjonäritunne pole sealsete põlisvalgete hulgas sootuks popp
Aa....
Ja eurooplased võtavad parema meelega vastu tulijaid Lähis-Idast, kui Aafrikast.
Ilmselt on nende kogemus midagi väärt.
Hiljuti asjatasin hallipäise Zimbabwest välja saadetud inglasega sel teemal.
Tema kasutaks hea meelega ainsa suhtlusvahendina püssitoru. Kogemusest.
Sest niipea, kui kohalikel valged vaenlased otsa said, hakkasid nad kohe üksteist tapma.
Halastamatumalt, kui valged kunagi seda teind.
Niipalju siis headest, haledatest neegritest.
Muidureisimine aga pole kindlasti taunitav.
Ja miks mitte ka oma reisu tasumiseks tööd teha.
Kusagile ju peab see prognoositav 30000-50000 (töö-)emigranti Eestist lähiaastatel pudenema...
see ei ole minu nägu, selle vist on teinud kägu.......
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Vanapaks
Vastaline Krants      Postitusi: 2188
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 16:11 |
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Kuna linke keegi eriti kasutada ei viitsi, siis enda õigustuseks ei jää mul muud üle kui postitada koopia ühest artiklist. Ja "The Times "
ei ole "Nelli teataja" . Ehk viitsib keegi läbil ugeda enne sööda neelamist. Vabandan südamest maksipostituse pärast, kuid minu meelest on
hoiatamine siiski omal kohal.
Osa I
Cruel Mind Games - Inside the Secret World of a Cult
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The Times, 2nd May 2000
by Michael Durham
At 1am on a freezing January night two carloads of people are speeding south down the M1. It is dark. At such an hour you might expect a sleepy
silence to reign. But no - a mood of relief and gaiety has gripped the passengers, all foreign, mostly young. It is as if a coiled spring of tension
has just snapped, leaving them talking and laughing with relief. It is as though Lars, Annelie, Gita, Simone and Uwe have escaped.
Lars, who is Swedish, is driving the car behind. He rings the lead car on his mobile phone. "What is the speed limit here? I'm doing 90.
There's a police car behind me with a blue light." For some reason this provokes hilarity. But Lars is not stopped and the journey to
London continues.
The place the five are so eager to get away from is a grim, red-brick private college in the windswept flatlands of East Yorkshire, eight miles east
of Hull, just outside the village of Winestead. To locals it is Winestead Hall, once a hospital, now some sort of international school. To students
who might pick up its brochures in a university common room, read its newspaper ads or surf the Internet, it is the College for International
Co-operation and Development (CICD).
The college "educates and prepares people for development work in the Third World" in Angola, Mozambique and Malawi. Students come from
Britain, Ireland, China, Poland and New Zealand. Usually they are in their teens and twenties, looking for the opportunity to do some travel and
voluntary work abroad before settling down to a university course or job.
Annelie Karlqvist, 20, who lives near Stockholm, saw an ad for CICD in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheder. She went to a meeting in Stockholm and
decided to enrol, working as a receptionist and saving for four months to meet the £2,000 CICD asked her to pay in advance. She arrived in England in
November and went to Hull, where she found the college a touch spartan and with a disappointingly small staff - one head teacher and a teacher - and
no more than a dozen students. But she settled into a routine of classes, household rotas, evening singsongs, class meetings and sports activities,
and wrote frequent letters home. It was the letters that gave it away. Her father, Lars, says: "Her mother [Marianne] knew something odd was
going on. Annelie described a lifestyle that was not normal for such a college. An older person can see it right away but she is young and thinks it
usual.
"It seemed she was never left alone and had almost no time for herself. It was 'you have to join in'. The work seemed so hard, but
it was about the upkeep of the school, not learning about Africa. And she had to spend so much time raising money in the streets and handing out
leaflets."
Two friends in Sweden, Olof and Jessica, were also alarmed by what they read. On the telephone Annelie seemed "burnt out" and to be
spending all her waking hours on tasks such as repainting the school walls, working in the kitchen and fundraising. The friends contacted FRI, the
Swedish cult information group, which put them in touch with a Dane, Bent Johanessen.
Johanessen confirmed that CICD was connected to the Danish (now worldwide) organisation Tvind. The day before Christmas Eve, Lars and Marianne rang
Johanessen in Stockholm. "The sooner you get Annelie home, the better. Don't let her go back to England," he said. Over the
Christmas holidays Marianne and Lars made phone calls, searched the Internet and filled a binder with papers. One day in Stockholm they sat down with
Annelie and her two friends and gave her the dossier, saying: "There are a few things you need to know." Annelie resolved to return to the
school in January, with her father, to collect her belongings and confront the staff.
Meanwhile, other students were growing suspicious. Gita, a New Zealander - who enrolled after seeing an ad in a free newspaper - was the first. So
keen a sleuth was she, surfing the Internet and asking questions under the noses of the teachers, that students in the know called her Miss Marple.
Gita found they had a lot to learn about the college and its links with other organisations in Scandinavia and the US. CICD acknowledged that it
operated "in co-operation with the International Humana People-to-People movement".
"I was determined to find out who I would be working for, who the managers or top guys of Humana were," says Gita.
Other students visited from Denmark, where there are several colleges similar to CICD known as "Travelling Folk High Schools". She asked
several about Humana; they all had a stock answer: "We don't really know Humana. As long as we are going to be doing good work in Africa,
we don't see the need to find out who they are."
Gita says: "I wondered why no one questioned anything about this mystery organisation that was supposed to send us to Africa to do volunteer
work." But she persisted. One niggle was that CICD always seemed short of money, even though most students had paid thousands of pounds upfront
and were constantly sent to collect more money on the streets of Hull, Manchester and Liverpool. In fact, the college appeared so poor that it was
falling apart, and students were told to carry out repairs. Yet when Gita met senior staff from Denmark they seemed to represent a wealthy
organisation.
Surfing the Internet, Gita began to uncover Winestead Hall's history. The students had not known, for example, about Winestead Hall School,
which occupied the same premises until two years ago. One of CICD's two teachers, Rolf, had taught there, an expensive residential boarding
school for emotionally disturbed teenagers, whose fees were met by English local authorities. The school, run through a charity called Small School at
Red House, had been forced to close in January 1998 after investigations by the Charity Commission, education and social services inspectors, and a
firm of chartered accountants.
Gita established that the organisation that owned and ran the school was running the college, operating as CICD, Humana People-to-People, Development
Aid from People-to-People, UFF, and Planet Aid. She also found the name of Winestead Hall School's last headmaster: Steen Thomsen, a Dane.
Thomsen, now living in Denmark, revealed some interesting facts. "When I mentioned his name to Karen Barsoe, CICD's Principal, she looked
shocked," says Gita. Miss Marple had found her mark.
Gita and other students compared notes: "One then found some information about Humana/Tvind and it was not favourable; newspapers had written
articles mentioning money misused. All sorts of things ran through our minds, we discussed several possibilities, then decided to confront
CICD's staff."
Most students were not impressed with the answers they got. "It was upsetting," says Clare Brogan, from Ireland. "We weren't
told all there was to know. I am so angry at them for making something very bad out of something that could have been so good. It's a
disgrace." Clare went back to Ireland, Annelie to Sweden, Gita to New Zealand and Simone returned with Uwe, her brother, to Cologne. In all,
nine students left CICD after Gita's discoveries. Karen Barsoe refused to speak to The Times.
Hull-based CICD is Tvind's main British outpost. Nobody knows what to make of the organisation - it is part "schools co-operation",
part "clothes-recycling project", part "Third World volunteer organisation", part instrument of world revolution, part
multinational business concern. Some people devote their lives to it, but many believe it is exploiting naive young people.
One person who knows as much as anyone is Thomsen, 51. In 1971, as a university student in Denmark, he saw a notice headed "Do you want to go to
India?". It was an invitation to enrol at a teacher-training college being built in a field outside Ulfborg in western Denmark, on a farm called
Tvind. The school was called the Necessary Teacher Training College (DNS).
The man behind DNS was a fellow Dane, Mogens Amdi Petersen, then a 31-year-old schoolteacher and left-wing activist. Unsuccessful in the state system,
he had decided to found a school system of his own, apparently with a view to creating paradise on Earth. Within a few years the organisation had 40
schools in Denmark, Norway, England and the US, and a variety of money-raising schemes, all wearing the badge of right-on respectability:
clothes-recycling for the Third World, charity flea markets, collections for Africa and volunteer work in Central America.
But it was not paradise on Earth. Thomsen, who remained loyal for 26 years, says Petersen's baby grew into a monster, a cult in which political
correctness, loyalty and obedience to Petersen were the most important things.
Opponents say the same values still apply: loyal followers may be invited to join a select inner circle, the Teachers Group, where they are expected
to pool all their resources, income and assets. Loyalty to the cause is everything. Tvind's hold over its adherents is such that it has spawned
a countergroup in Scandinavia, the Movement Against Tvind, dedicated to warning young people about its true nature.
Loyalty to Petersen was at the top of Thomsen's agenda when he was the Head at Winestead Hall School; now he is a whistleblower. He admitted to
The Times that education and social work inspectors had not been told the whole truth about the school. "We gave the impression it was well run;
it was not. There were not enough staff to look after the children; we worked all day and half the night. We never admitted that to the inspectors. We
were also told to deny any involvement with Tvind."
He alleges that the school was a "money machine" for Tvind; much of the fees the school got from local authorities to pay for the
children's education were not spent on Winestead at all but were spirited to Denmark via a leasing arrangement with an offshore Channel Islands
company that Tvind also happens to run. The link between the school and the offshore company was never disclosed to the Charity Commission in annual
accounts.
The commission said it had in 1996 appointed a receiver and manager to run the charity through which Tvind ran the school because of concerns about
its financial controls and administration. "The report to the commission from the receiver and manager indicated that substantial sums of
charitable money had been unwisely spent on leases taken out on the school premises and on three yachts. It was estimated that hundreds of thousands
of pounds had been lost to the charity." As a result the trustees were suspended and removed by the Charity Commissioners in July 1997.
New trustees were appointed, some of them experienced in education, but later that year the new trustees approached the Charity Commission with
serious concerns about the welfare and safety of the children after two inspections by HMI and the placing authorities, Norfolk and East Riding. The
receiver and manager was reappointed and said there was no alternative but to close the schools immediately on the ground that the "health,
safety and welfare of the children could not be guaranteed".
The revelations did not surprise Robert Lake, the director of Humberside Social Services with responsibility for the school in the early 1990s. He
instructed staff not to send children there and asked officials if it could be closed. When told there were no grounds to do so he wrote to all social
services departments advising them not to send children. "It is a matter of public record that in the early 1990s I was very concerned about the
care offered to children at Winestead Hall. If the same organisation were to reopen the premises, working in the same way, it would reawaken my
concern," he says.
It is astonishing that, though a connection between Tvind and the schools had long been suspected, Winestead Hall and Red House Schools had avoided
detailed scrutiny for so long, for Tvind is very controversial in its native Denmark. Its ability to claim millions of krone from the State in funding
for its schools has led to attempts to change the Constitution. Most Danes are aware - and concerned - that Tvind has become a multinational business
concern as well as, according to its own lights, an educational and aid charity. Apparently funded by its own members, volunteers, public donations
and official grants, Tvind has reportedly invested in property, fruit plantations, old-clothes trading in Central America, Africa and the Pacific -
though these commercial ventures are rarely disclosed to young volunteers.
In several countries leading members of the Teachers Group are known to enjoy a second role as directors of commercial concerns linked to Tvind. Last
month a Danish Sunday newspaper linked it with a recently opened computer business and a factory making furniture in China. Yet another Tvind
subsidiary, Planet Aid, has begun siting clothes-recycling bins and coin-collection boxes in stores and petrol stations across the US, sometimes to
the despair of competing local charities.
Though few Danes deem Tvind a cult - it is more often seen as a fringe political movement - it shares many characteristics described by the Cult
Information Centre (CIC): a centralised organisation with a powerful leader, dedicated to its own survival and recruiting new members. In France the
Chamber of Deputies two years ago cited Humana-Tvind as "une secte" and it has also been listed as a cult by a Belgian parliamentary
inquiry. The experience of several longstanding members supports this.
Thomsen, who was close to the core leadership and received regular phone calls from Petersen, describes an organisation riddled with paranoia,
misinformation and topsy-turvy values. Britta Rasmussen, a Dane who worked for Tvind for seven years, realised the gravity of her situation when she
was refused permission to fly home from her post in America to visit her mother, who had terminal cancer. Rasmussen stole her passport from an office
at 4am, climbed out of a window and hitch-hiked to New York. Others who have left have similar stories, and many are traumatised. Anne Ellingsen, a
Norwegian former volunteer, told a conference on cults in 1993: "The sect is dangerous and should be watched with attention by authorities and
private persons wherever it operates."
Tvind's supporters say 40,000 young people have benefited from the schools and contact with the Third World. So what is so dangerous about
Tvind? Quite apart from the flow of allegations about psychological pressure from those who have been most closely involved, a stream of young people
who have spent only a few months as volunteer solidarity workers have come forward with alarming stories. They say workers often become blinkered to
commonsense rules about safety because of the ideological pre-eminence of the cause to which they have become committed.
Tvind students of both sexes are often expected to hitch-hike, seek accommodation with strangers and walk the streets of foreign cities alone. In 1983
eight young members of the Teachers Group died when their ship, the Activ, sank in a gale in the English channel. It later emerged that the ship was
not seaworthy and its crew had no experience; but they had been summoned to a meeting in Denmark. Else Waale, some of whose friends died, says:
"It was unthinkable not to go, there was no excuse for staying away. So they died for it."
Despite setbacks, Tvind continues to find Britain a fertile ground for recruitment. CICD and its sister colleges in Scandinavia advertise in Britain
for young people to train as solidarity workers, sending volunteers to distribute leaflets in university common rooms, placing ads in regional and
national newspapers, and magazines likely to be read by young people.
In Britain the leading educational charities offering advice on cults, the CIC and FAIR (Family, Action, Information and Resource), have received
complaints about Tvind and its organisations and say they have received requests for help. "I'd be very concerned for the welfare of
anyone associated with Tvind or any of its associated companies," says Ian Haworth of the CIC.
Dr Elizabeth Tilden, a consultant psychiatrist with an interest in mind control, has studied other "potential" cults and has met cases of
people damaged by contact with such cults. They refused to accept any criticism of the cause they had joined, even if presented with evidence of
financial or moral wrongdoing. "You believe what you are being asked to do is for the good of humanity and are persuaded that the way you are
acting is the right way. Often there is an extreme degree of privation. You become a martyr, your self is no longer important, you glorify the cause
and nothing else matters," she said.
"Cults like this usually are careful to select highly intelligent people with a good background, and it is important that they be people with
strong moral fibre, or who have had a religious upbringing. The cult gets them by breaking that down and substituting its own values. It becomes a
belief system, and can be so thorough that you can become isolated from everything, particularly from parents, friends and loved ones. It is your new
job."
Or, as one anonymous informant wrote in an e-mail: "Be careful, look out for yourself and don't give them any money." Another wrote:
"Tvind and all the enthusiastic people working at its organisations know the answers of everything. Join them, and you will never have to worry
about thinking for yourself."
If there is one person we would like to ask all about this, it is Mogens Amdi Petersen, now 61, healthy and, close informants say, still very much in
charge of the organisation he created. But don't let us get too hopeful - Petersen went "underground" more than 20 years ago. He has
not been seen in public, held a photo opportunity or given a press conference in all that time. Only a handful of people know his whereabouts at any
one time; insiders say he is living in Florida or Zimbabwe.
One person who would like to find him is Annelie - and so would her parents. Lars, who flew over from Sweden especially to bring his daughter home,
aimed to confront the teachers at CICD. But, when cornered, the two Tvind teachers at Winestead simply turned on the charm, denied that anything was
amiss and seemed not to understand why all the young people couldn't think like them - that's the Tvind way.
"I'm so relieved to be out of there," says Annelie. "Another two months and who knows how I might have ended up?"
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Vanapaks
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Osa II
Case history 1 - Bob Nelson
BOB NELSON, 23, a former pig farmer from Huntly, near Aberdeen, enrolled with Tvind after seeing an ad headed "Africa needs you". He rang
the number and was invited to Denmark for an "information weekend", which he described as exciting. He was promised training, then work on
an aid project in Africa.
Unable to afford the £2,000 advance fee, he agreed to work as a volunteer for three months at a clothes-sorting centre in Norway to defray the costs.
Once there, he says he was expected to work up to 16 hours a day in return for living expenses of £30 a week. When he demurred his boss was
unsympathetic. "He was a workaholic and wouldn't accept criticism. The place was in chaos. We were given more work than we could cope with
but there was no reasoning with him."
In February 1999 he went to the Travelling Folk High School in Denmark, where he expected to learn practical skills. But he says: "There was no
proper training. The teachers had no respect for the students and the students held the staff in contempt."
After eight weeks he was sent out to raise money on the streets of Copenhagen, selling college newspapers to passers-by. Students had a target of £100
a day and were told that if they did not achieve it, they could not go to Africa. But Nelson grew suspicious when people on the street told him he was
raising money on false pretences. "Everyone in Denmark knows about Tvind and most people despise it," he says. "They would tell me
to ask the teachers about Mogens Amdi Petersen, and about where the money was going. When I did the teachers got defensive and hostile and
wouldn't talk about it."
Nelson hoped his time in Mozambique would prove better. But when he arrived in Maputo with one other solidarity worker there was no one to meet him;
he had to find his own way to the ADPP compound. He handed over his passport and had to travel without proper documents for the next five months. At
Tvind's teacher training college in Nacala, where he was supposed to train young Africans, the administration was chaotic. "There was no
leadership, we felt lost. It was six or seven weeks before there was a proper meeting and we were told what to do. The school was tense. The Danish
project leaders had tunnel vision. The Africans hated the Danes, called them neo-colonialists."
Eventually, Nelson left the project a month early, retrieved his passport and made his way home through Zimbabwe and South Africa. "These people
use the prospect of going to Africa as bait; once you are hooked they get what they want from you," he says. "It's all about money
and getting people to join. They make you work veryhard and undermine your independence. They get you to do things over and over without questioning
anything. After a while you stop thinking for yourself; if you are weak, you end up becoming one of them.
"They don't care for anyone but themselves. I met lots of genuine, lovely people who were being used and abused in the same way."
Case history 2 - Nick Moss
AS A 21-year-old graduate Nick Moss thought he would be helping Africa's poor when he enrolled at Travelling Folk High School in Juelsminde,
western Denmark. But after six disastrous months in Angola he concluded Tvind was more interested in its own status and power than alleviating world
poverty, and has since publicly campaigned against the organisation.
Within a week of arriving at Juelsminde Moss, from Hull, became suspicious of the teaching methods. Older teachers employed classic manipulative
techniques to pressurise young students and make them conform to their own ideology, he says. "There was a tendency among the members of the
Teachers Group to control the intellectual and social interaction of students. Intimidation, shouting people down and the manipulation of group
dynamics in a way I can only describe as Stalinistic were common techniques." Moss himself was "berated" for "not
participating enough" in a debate and subjected to ridicule before other students, apparently because of his university education. "My
teacher was offensive and threatening. I put up with it because I thought it would all work out when I got to Africa."
Moss spent weeks raising funds, selling postcards on the streets in Germany, before arriving in Angola in February 1996. There things were even worse.
Volunteers had to share a house in isolated Mosquito Valley, with poor security and no electricity, though Danish project leaders lived in better
conditions in the local town, Benguela. The team's radio rarely worked. "Bullets regularly flew over the roof as armed guards defended the
surrounding banana plantations from theft. We had not been prepared for any of this."
Within a week of arriving he contracted malaria but claims that a project leader did not take him to a clinic for five days. During four bouts of
malaria his temperature hit 41C, but he saw only a local doctor and on one occasion was told he would have to send a fax to Denmark before other
treatment could be authorised. "Young people who go to Africa with Tvind are placed at unnecessary risk," he says.
An old idea recycled
FIVE years ago Humana UK was one of Britain's main clothes-recycling charities. It was a big outpost of Tvind's empire, ostensibly
channelling thousands of pounds to African aid projects.
Last year the Charity Commission in effect closed Humana because of concerns that the money might not be used for its intended purpose. But Tvind has
reappeared, as Planet Aid UK. Its publicity director, Danish-born Birgit Soe, says it has a mission to "see the country filled" with
clothes collection boxes. But Planet Aid UK is a commercial venture, not a charity.
In Kettering, Planet Aid boxes have appeared outside post offices and pubs. A council officer says a man with a foreign accent rang on behalf of
Planet Aid UK and assured them it was a registered charity. In fact, Planet Aid UK applied to the Charity Commission for charity status but then
withdrew the application. The address given, in Goldsmith Avenue, London W3, was used in the past by Humana.
The commission began investigating Humana after newspaper reports in 1993 suggested that only 8 per cent of its income was being used for charity,
with the rest spent on "administration".
Humana UK was put in receivership and the commission used new powers to appoint additional, non-Tvind, trustees to the charity's board. But last
year, with new and old trustees unable to work together, the commission dismissed all the Scandinavian ones and put the charity under new management;
900 Humana clothes collection boxes around Britain and its seven shops are the responsibility of Textile Recycling for Aid and International
Development, which is rebranding them. The money Traid raises is being passed to charities such as Oxfam and Care International.
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JoanMadou
pixie      Postitusi: 1001
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| postitatud 28.05.2005 kell 19:02 |
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Jaa. Nüüd julgen antud skeemi kohta midagi arvata küll. Halvasti arvan.
Let's go save the world guys!
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Marla
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| postitatud 19.09.2005 kell 13:41 |
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Mina pooldan selliseid ettevõtmisi igatahes. Isegi ehk kaalun minemist !
Jah, eks ebaõnnestumisi/äpradusi ja pettumusi tuleb ikka ette. Kuid nii on igas eluvaldkonnas. Teiste kogemustest ja nõuannetest võib lähtuda, kuid
parem on minumeelest kõike omal nahal kogeda.
Tihti lähevad vabatahtlikuks inimesed, kel ei ole absoluutselt mingisugust ettekujutust, kuidas töö käib. Oodatakse ei-tea-mida. Ning kui kogemus on
natuke teistlaadi, hakatakse huilgama, et halvasti korraldatud, kõik on võlts jne.
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Mis puutub eestlastesse ja aafriklastesse. Siis.
Tähendab, riigipiirid ei loe. Inimesed on inimesed igal pool !
SIIN üks tore eesti tüdruku kogemus !
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