Fabiola 🇨🇭Kitchen, Haus Hiltl
Gira amahoro! This means as much as “peace be with you” in Kirundi – my mother tongue from Burundi. 🇧🇮 ✌ I’m Fabiola and I’ve been working in the kitchen at Haus Hiltl since 2019. 🔥 🍳 What I love about working at Hiltl is the mutual respect for each other in all teams. That’s not a given with so many different cultures – a real melting pot in the kitchen. 😜
Before I moved to Switzerland with my husband in 2011, we owned a Swiss restaurant together in Uganda, where I whipped up delicious Swiss delicacies. 🧀 🥔 It was going extremely well, but we had to leave the country because of the upcoming war – I didn’t want to experience this trauma a 2nd time. 💔 When I was 12 years old, a civil war broke out between two tribes in Burundi. My parents were brutally murdered in front of my eyes. Fortunately, my 6 siblings and I survived. Although we all live scattered around the world, we have never been as close as we are now. 💞 Every year we meet again in Uganda in my house, which I built with my sweat and hands, it’s also the only place I want to grow old in.
Respect each other. Love is stronger than hate. Here at the Hiltl, I learned to love and respect animals for their empathy and intelligence. 🐮🐷 Respect your fellow human beings in the same way: In Switzerland, refugees from both tribes of Burundi meet and are friends. 🤝 Open your heart and you will receive love back. 💚
