She is a passionate truck driver and has a big heart for her fellow human beings: Cindy Schneppe from Nandlstadt, who played Christ Child again this year.
Nandlstadt
- At Christmas, the truck driver was on duty again to please her colleagues, who stayed in the autobahn parking lots in dreary weather on the holidays.
She also paid attention to the employees of the Nandlstadt rescue station.
For eight years, Cindy Schneppe has felt the need to make her colleagues happy at Christmas.
And so she stood in the kitchen and baked coconut macaroons, organized tangerines and apples and bought chocolate, biscuits and the like. On Christmas Eve, she packed the things in 150 bags and on Christmas Day went to the parking lots around Fürholzen.
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Together with the boy next door, Robin, their friends Markus and Toni and accompanied by the dog Balu, the "Christmas elves" knocked on the truck doors and handed the drivers the Christmas bags.
And the truck drivers were very happy: "They had tears in their eyes and a smile on their faces," says Cindy Schneppe.
As a thank you, there was a spontaneous “concert” from the truck drivers: “They all honked - that was pure goose bumps,” says the truck driver.
For Cindy Schneppe, who has been driving trucks for more than 20 years, this outing on Christmas Day is “an affair of the heart”: “On the weekends, the drivers belong home - and at Christmas anyway,” she says.
"I'm lucky that I can be at home every day and when I was driving truck I was at home every weekend."
Schneppe: "These are people who are often forgotten"
And she wishes that for her colleagues too.
But she knows from experience that reality is different.
Fruit, vegetables and fresh products must and may be delivered on the holidays, and many truck drivers from abroad are "stranded" at the motorway service stations.
She wants to make you happy - and give you a smile.
"These are people who are often forgotten," says Schneppe.
Cindy Schneppe also paid a visit to the police in Pfaffenhofen and the ambulance station in Nandlstadt - the latter already on Christmas Eve.
Mayor Gerhard Betz, who drove full-time for many years in the ambulance service and is an experienced paramedic, took over the late shift here.
He was very happy about the visit and the sweet surprise for the BRK employees.
“It's a really cool action,” he said in an interview with the FT.
Every year the Second Christmas Day is reserved for the campaign
And this should also be there in the coming year: "December 25th is reserved for this campaign - whatever may come," says Cindy Schneppe.
She would be happy if she was supported by her fellow citizens again - as was the case this year - by donating cookies, fruit or sweets, for example.
And she would like to organize this for a long time, because: "We do it because it comes from the heart."
