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Humana

Humana is the registered charity name of a Danish-based educational
organisation called 'Tvind' which recruits undergraduates from
throughout Europe and America. It specialises in boarding schools
for problem children and in fund-raising for the Third World.
Potential teachers are put through intensive courses before being
introduced into the rank and file of the Tvind empire. Pupils and
staff are encouraged to spend almost all their free time collecting
second- hand clothes and money for the Third World, driven by
relentless encouragement from Tvind leaders and the organisation's
left-wing ethos.

It was following a Guardian investigation in 1993 that Tvind's
movements began to be scrutinised by the Charity Commission.
Money raised, the Guardian revealed, was being mysteriously
channelled through offshore companies, brass-plate foundations
and property investments. Tvind was selling rather than donating
its second-hand clothes to the Third World and there had been
pay-related strikes on fruit plantations owned by the organisation
in the Caribbean. Tvind was also found to own a shipping company
and have a capital worth of around £31 million. Of the
£3.7 million annual profit made by Tvind in Sweden alone,
80 per cent of it was being used to pay project leaders and
'solidarity workers': two per cent went to the Third World.

Last year it was reported that Tvind was still recruiting
undergraduates at Cambridge and Salford Universities. The Charity
Commission said it was satisfied that the situation had now
improved. The Cult Information Centre says some Humana shops have
been closed in an attempt to streamline the charity's British
operations. Several businesses unconnected with Tvind use the
name Humana.

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