Tvind Today
Fundraising, income generating activities and employment in other enterprises has become a successful part of the curriculum in the schools for adults, "Travelling Folk High Schools" and the "Necessary Teacher Training College".
In the schools for children and youngsters the student base was shifted so that the focus is now on students which had a bad start in life, being subjected to abuse, being involved with alcohol or drugs, being from immigrant or refugee families with conflict ridden background or being orphans etc. Financial support for training and education of such young people are available from the social services of the municipalities in Denmark, which are now providing the funds for the school fees and boarding fees. Those schools were named "The Small Schools" because of many smaller units with different programs.
An estimated 40,000 children, youth and adults have until 1996 attended the Tvind schools since the first school was established in 1970.
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