Honoring Lech Walesa and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sharing a heartfelt handshake of comradery, Richard R. Troxell, cofounder of House the Homeless, meets one of his lifetime heroes, electrical dockworker, past President of Poland, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Lech Walesa. It is clear that they share their mutual respect and love for the people, the yellow flag of Ukraine and their President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In this photo, Richard had just shared his story of organizing supporters of House the Homeless, who raised over $2,000 to smuggle life saving generators through western Ukraine to the women and children trapped in eastern Ukraine.
In the early years of attack, Russian despot, Vladamir Putin, nearly devastated the entire electrical grid of Ukraine, stranding them to face a winter of hell. Mr. Walesa described the House the Homeless response to that action as a life saving initiative that proved that the world had not abandoned them.
Second is a picture of a special illustration shown to Mr. Walesa. It is a pen and ink drawing that Richard Troxell created in 1984, honoring Mr. Walesa many years before when he was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting and defeating communism in Poland. The drawing, honoring Lech Walesa, also hung for 10 years in the hall of the Poor Richard’s Club in Philadelphia at a time when Troxell was a union organizer and self-made Mortgage Foreclosure Preventionist working for Legal Aid, saving homes of the poor from being foreclosed upon.
