Most foster parents open their hearts and their homes to children knowing that they are helping them on their journey to finding their forever homes.
However, when Mohamed Bzeek opens up his home to foster a child, he knows that his home is likely the first and the last family the kids will ever know since the kids he fosters are terminally ill. Bzeek, who came to the United States from Libya in 1978, first started fostering children with his wife in 1989. Six years later, the two decided to start fostering terminal children so they wouldn’t die alone in a facility.
“It’s my faith. I take those kids. I know they need somebody. I know there is not many people for them,” said Bzeek, who has continued to foster terminal children even after his wife died. “They put them in a facility or send (them to) the hospital. They never have family. I will take them and they have family, and when they die, they die with their family.”
Over the years, Bzeek has cared for more than 40 dying children, 10 of which died with him at home. “For some kids, they hit me so hard, I was crying for three days,” he said. Despite how hard it is, Bzeek couldn’t imagine stopping since he knows how much it helps the children and is currently fostering a 6-year-old girl who is blind, deaf, and has little brain function.
“I sleep next to her,” said Bzeek who has not had a day off in six years because she needs constant care. “If she moves or she’s up — I’m up. Because you can’t take a chance. Because if she chokes, she could die.”
Bzeek has recently shared his story to show how important it is to be a foster parent for these kids, and his story quickly spread. Margaret Cotts was so touched by what Bzeek does for terminal orphans that she started a GoFundMe to help him since caring for a terminal child is a full-time job. So far, the campaign has raised nearly 300,000 in just a few weeks, and Bzeek is speechless by the support.
“I am not an angel. I’m a human being. I did it (fostering) because I’m a human being. I do it to help someone in need. That is what we are supposed to do as human beings.”
Watch the entire video below to see the incredible reason this man opens his home and heart to terminal foster kids.
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Widower Devotes His Life To Fostering Terminally Ill Orphans is an article from: LifeDaily