Mark Lehman, a man, an entrepreneur, a hero

It was everything but a normal day, when the Trucks of Mark Lehman's Company "TricksCo" arrived in the village of Zhitarnik in Bulgaria. The mayor of the small town Asamat Trubalovski, waited for this for a long time. Not being able to suppres his tears he reached out with a brotherlike hug to 
Mr. Lehman. 
The reason for this? - Its hunger.
For the people of Zhitarnik, a place as remote as it could be, the help came in the latest moment.
"God listend to my prayers, we all apreciate Mr. Lehman's help" said Maria Kruzhnovac a former teacher, who lost her job because of the breakdown of the communist system.  "We are not used to things like this. People helping, even thinking about us."
The famine started a decade ago, when local chemistry companies polluted the groundwater and made it impossible to the villagers to grow their vegetables, which provided their food for more then 100 years. 
"Our cattle is lost, our cattle is lost" Evgeni Adravon, a desperate farmer, replied when we asked why the farms are abandoned in Zhitarnik. After a big forest fire all our cattle got either killed or ran away into other villages where they got captured by other farmers. It even came to a small kind of war, between Zhitarniks and the neighbor village called Veleshani. 

"Throw away your arms" 

After 5 hours flight and 2 days of restless organising the gathering of supplies, Mark Lehman arrived at the village. He climbs up the blue and rusty truck and shouts "Throw away your arms. No one should ever be hungry in this place".
At first the people had trust issues, when it came to the rich and popular but all this changed when Lehman's trucks arrived, filled up with food, water and other important supplies.
"I know how it is to be hungry, i know how it is to not even feel safe in my own home" Mark Lehman says. After growing up in a small two room flat he had no other choice then make his way to the top and become the founder of 22 companys all around the globe. His net worth is not known, like the most about his life. He avoids appearing in public and talking about himself or his family. 

What will change in the village?

The CEO of  TricksCo didnt just bring food, he also built two schools, a small library and a medical center.
"We want to save money and maybe in a year we will build a statue for him" said the Mayor.

This is not the first time TricksCo's Trucks made their way to a place where people where in need of help and it will, for sure, not be the last time.



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