Twibber Stories

One woman who I really admire is a local here in my hometown Munich – Lydia Staltner. Lydia founded LichtBlick e.V. in 2003, a non-profit organization that takes care of elderly people in need.

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.

As former German bankers-turned-camel whisperers, me and my husband never expected to become pioneers of an award-winning camel dairy in Australia. A world away from managing investments at one of the eldest savings banks in Germany.

When I moved from Berlin to the Baltic Sea in 2012, I knew: I had to decelerate my life. Before, it seemed I lived in a hamster wheel. First as a stewardess, then in a career in communication and marketing. A glittering life in the big…

Four years ago, my friend Susanne had the idea to open a university in Koudougou, Burkina Faso. She already had proven that she was capable of doing so with the Lycée Schorge, a secondary school for boys and girls built by the Burkina-born star architect Francis…

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.

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?“

My five year old son gave me a special Twibber moment: While on a visit in my home country Togo, we sat in a bar and my son was sipping his coke. Suddenly a much elder native guy came up to us and begged for food.…

Two years ago I had a special birthday wish: I wanted to get five chickens. Before, I had little to do with animals. I had grown up with dogs, cats, and a pony horse, but lived a typical city life later.

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.