Twibber Stories

As a proud owner of four wonderful dogs (all got from animal shelters) my heart also goes out to other dogs. For about 15 years my association Lucky Dogs has rescued dogs from shelters and killing stations in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Roumania, Belarus, and other countries.

I am a passionate cyclist and mobility has always been a major topic in my life. I also support children in need with my association Radeln & Helfen (Go Biking and Help) for 20 years.

We are former college students of E-commerce sciences at the University of Würzburg in Bavaria, now finishing our graduations in Berlin and Leipzig. We are also dog lovers.

I drink tap water at home but must admit: When on the road, I often relied on plastic water bottles from the supermarket. Recently I have discovered an eco-friendly alternative:

Since my childhood I have loved chicken and dreamt of having some at my home. The industrial livestock farming where millions of laying hens are held under painful conditions always saddened me.

Even to those of us who have been used to working remotely since before the pandemic, the lockdown has created a big shift in our social lives.

When I moved my family to Dubai back in 2013 I knew we were in for a special ride - full of new adventures and discoveries!

I’m almost 70 years old – and I go to school again. There I support children to solve their disputes. I work like many others for the German organization Seniorpartner in School which trains people of generation 55+ as voluntary mediators in schools.

As a single mother of two small kids, I went to the main station in Munich in the summer of 2015 when many refugees from Syria arrived. My five-year-old son asked me: „We can’t really help them, right?“