Humana – People to Profit

March 13th, 2009 by Frans Prins Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling

“People to people” is their slogan. And considering the accusation of Humana being a cult, this slogan gets a slightly different sound. While you think you post your old clothes to charity when donating them to the Humana box, you might actually support a fraudulent cult that exploits both volunteers and people in development countries.

According to Tvind Alert, a Humana critical site, “it’s pyramidal structure, strict heirarchy, all-powerful leader, millennial goals, secretive nature and hostility to outsiders all match classic descriptions of a cult. Under the name ‘Tvind’ or ‘Humana’, it is listed as a cult by the French and Belgian governments and many cult watchdog groups around the world.” The organization also operates under the names “Planet Aid” and “Gaia”.

Peterson, founder of the organisation, has been disappeared for 22 years, and catched by the FBI while living in a Humana funded billionaire’s house near Miami. After courts in Denmark, he’s on the run again and since Jaunary 2009 on the list of Interpol.

The clothing collection is a profitable business. While the textiles are collected for free, the best pieces are sold in second hand stores, and the rest shipped to Africa to sell on the local markets. According to some specialists, the dumping of second hand clothing in developing countries has had a crushing effect on local economies. This is not a Humana problem alone, also more credible NGO’s have been involved in this process. Also, specialists don’t have one standing point there and some still state that sending clothing as aid works.

So, what to do with your next clothing dump? I suggest: organize a clothes swapping party. It’s much fun and you know where your clothes go. And with the rest? Also an NGO label on the container doesn’t give you any guarantee that your clothes are not gonna be sold on a profitable base. In Germany, the organization FairWertung informs about credible organizations and which containers to trust. In the future, I hope I can just bring my old clothes to the nearby climateneutral cradle-to-cradle machine and get fresh underwear out on demand. But yeah, until then we have to cradle to cradle with our bare hands…

also see: Kirstin Brodde, Korrekteklamotten, Sebastian Backhaus

  1. 7 Responses to “Humana – People to Profit”

  2. By Ajay on Oct 20, 2010

    Humana People to People is running in India also.
    Here Snorre westguaard/ Helle Lund (one of the fugative)/ Elmer Vergee and Anna Marie are running the organization and many innocent emoloyees are been forced to join TG.
    TG India also planned to open up banana plantation in South of India but did not open it and infact has expances of Rs. 13000000 in dollars divede by 45.
    TG is also planning to open up its commercial microfinance business in Uttar Pradesh (India)from February 2011.
    Humana People to People have its adderess in India as follows:
    Humana People to People
    C 183, MAdhuban
    Preet Vihar , Near Punjab NAtional BAnk
    Delhi 110092
    India
    Phone number: 011- 32947734

  3. By Marja on Nov 16, 2010

    Dear people, this must be a joke! I worked in a project of Humana in Africa, had a great time and did not see any fraud. All this articles are based on other articles and those were based on other articles, but nobody checks the facts…

    I am sorry but I get just so tired of this.

    I was a volunteer in a Humana project, I was not exploited and had a great time

  4. By Ramnaresh on Jan 25, 2011

    the content are based on jealousy by those dont want development and in fact if they want to know the reality work with Humana at least 5 years so he/could be able to understand the reality i am 100% agree with marja.

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  6. By Clark Smith on Jun 12, 2011

    If you are thinking that choosing a humana medicare part d plan for 2011 is a good idea, you are not alone. Humana Part D drug coverage has been one of the most popular prescription drug programs for Medicare beneficiaries.

  7. By medicare plans on Aug 31, 2011

    Humana has some of the highest costing Medicare plans.

  8. By Tvind Alert on Oct 4, 2011

    This is not a joke. The many articles and web pages critical of Tvind are based on solid facts – Danish police and American FBI documents from 2001-2002 and official records of court proceedings in Denmark in 2002-2011, among many other sources. Four of the leaders at the top of the organisation are currently (2011) wanted by international police forces and Interpol.

    These are facts and not inventions. Just because volunteers for the organisation are unaware of these facts, does not mean they are not true. See the website http://www.tvindalert.com.

    Ajay, thank you for the information on Humana India. We would be interested to know more from anyone else who has information: feedback(at)tvindalert.com

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