"The key is, you have to love them like your own." Mohammed Bzeek.
Libyan foster father opens his house for sickest children out of “love and hope”
Libyan Mohamed Bzeek, who moved to the US in 1978, has been a foster father for more than two decades taking in the sickest of the sick children in Los Angeles County’s sprawling foster care system and providing them with around the clock care at his home, reported the Los Angeles Times last week.
The Libyan foster father has been known in the county for taking care of the most serious cases among all sick children, and according to the Los Angeles Times report, he has buried about 10 children, some of whom died in his arms.
“Now, Bzeek spends long days and sleepless nights caring for a bedridden 6-year-old foster girl with a rare brain defect. She’s blind and deaf. She has daily seizures. Her arms and legs are paralyzed.” The American newspaper explained.
Bzeek told the Los Angeles Times, “I know she can’t hear, can’t see, but I always talk to her,” he said. “I’m always holding her, playing with her, touching her. … She has feelings. She has a soul. She’s a human being.”
According to the report, the county where Bzeek lives is suffering from a dire need for foster parents to care for such children; however, there is only Bzeek, who volunteered to do so.
The report added that Bzeek came around the idea of a foster father with the help of his wife, Dawn, and then his love for the humanitarian work grew bigger as his only biological son, Adam, who was born in 1997 — was diagnosed with brittle bone disease and dwarfism.
Bzeek continues to care for the girl and other children, as part of what he believes is “hope” for the children despite the sorrows that were brought upon him after losing his wife, Dawn, in 2013, the Los Angeles Times adds.
