Twibber Stories

I was born in a small village in Togo, Africa, and as a child, I had to walk five kilometers to school every day. Now living in Germany, I went back to Togo on vacation a couple of years ago.

Last Sunday evening, while enduring these difficult and uncertain times, I had a beautiful twib moment and realized that music can bring comfort and solidarity.

While on our honeymoon in the Maldives, my husband and I were appalled by the amount of plastic filling up oceans, and spent movie nights on the beach watching docs about how we’re hurting sea life.

My friend and former journalist colleague Andreas Tölke recently visited the refugee camp Moria on Lesbos and met a four-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a bomb attack in Syria.

Living near the Mediterranean Sea, I saw huge amounts of trash washed up on the beaches. I was devastated to see the pollution all over, with the waters and marine life suffering.

When visiting some colleagues recently at the publishing house Hubert Burda Media in Munich, I realized that several dogs were strolling around.

I am a writer and a farmer, and in my opinion the modern idea that woods should be sacred, untouchable museums of trees is false.

Recently I met a gentleman with a high nobility lineage – and an impressive personal story. Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, 37, spends ten months per year living as a development aid worker in a small tent in the Kenyan region of Turkana.

As daughters of Ethiopian immigrants in Germany, our vision has been to build a bridge between Ethiopia and Germany – doing good by economical action! That’s why we founded our social business nuruCoffee and our association nuruWomen e. V.

The construction of "Tiny House Villages" is a big trend here in Germany, and I have discovered an exemplary tiny house project: In the municipality of Ursberg, in the Bavarian region of Swabia, seven mini-houses have been recently built that are only open to tenants with…