LA Resident Mohamed Bzeek Adopts/Fosters orphaned terminally ill children 80 so far

 
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 7:59 am    Post subject: LA Resident Mohamed Bzeek Adopts/Fosters orphaned terminally ill children 80 so far

This story smashed my feels... in a restorative way. I searched to make sure he is real and PBS interviewed him.

An 😇 probably living in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles who causes pause in our consciousness and hearts

Single Father Devotes His Life To Fostering Terminally Ill Children
By Emma Taggart on August 9, 2024

https://mymodernmet.com/mohamed-bzeek/
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Human kindness knows no boundaries, and few embody this truth better than Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born, LA-based man who has fostered over 80 children in the past 25 years. “The key is, you have to love them like your own,” Bzeek said recently. “I know they are sick. I know they are going to die. I do my best as a human being and leave the rest to God.”

Bzeek started caring for foster children with his late wife Dawn in 1989. He first experienced the death of one of his foster children in 1991, when a little girl with a spinal disorder sadly passed away on July 4. By the mid-1990s, the Bzeeks decided to care exclusively for sick or terminally ill children, since no one else would take them in. The Bzeeks worked closely with the Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, who would call them every time there was a child in need.


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Most recently, Bzeek has welcomed a young girl with a rare brain condition into his care. She’s blind, deaf, and paralyzed in her arms and legs. He says, “The only way to communicate with her is by touch, and so I hold her. I want her to know that somebody is here for her. Somebody loves her. She is not alone.”
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:32 am    Post subject: Re: LA Resident Mohamed Bzeek Adopts/Fosters orphaned terminally ill children 80 so far

ContagiousInspiration wrote:
This story smashed my feels... in a restorative way. I searched to make sure he is real and PBS interviewed him.

An 😇 probably living in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles who causes pause in our consciousness and hearts

Single Father Devotes His Life To Fostering Terminally Ill Children
By Emma Taggart on August 9, 2024

https://mymodernmet.com/mohamed-bzeek/
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Human kindness knows no boundaries, and few embody this truth better than Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born, LA-based man who has fostered over 80 children in the past 25 years. “The key is, you have to love them like your own,” Bzeek said recently. “I know they are sick. I know they are going to die. I do my best as a human being and leave the rest to God.”

Bzeek started caring for foster children with his late wife Dawn in 1989. He first experienced the death of one of his foster children in 1991, when a little girl with a spinal disorder sadly passed away on July 4. By the mid-1990s, the Bzeeks decided to care exclusively for sick or terminally ill children, since no one else would take them in. The Bzeeks worked closely with the Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, who would call them every time there was a child in need.


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Most recently, Bzeek has welcomed a young girl with a rare brain condition into his care. She’s blind, deaf, and paralyzed in her arms and legs. He says, “The only way to communicate with her is by touch, and so I hold her. I want her to know that somebody is here for her. Somebody loves her. She is not alone.”


A living saint…
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: LA Resident Mohamed Bzeek Adopts/Fosters orphaned terminally ill children 80 so far

JerryWest_44 wrote:
ContagiousInspiration wrote:
This story smashed my feels... in a restorative way. I searched to make sure he is real and PBS interviewed him.

An 😇 probably living in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles who causes pause in our consciousness and hearts

Single Father Devotes His Life To Fostering Terminally Ill Children
By Emma Taggart on August 9, 2024

https://mymodernmet.com/mohamed-bzeek/
Quote:
Human kindness knows no boundaries, and few embody this truth better than Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born, LA-based man who has fostered over 80 children in the past 25 years. “The key is, you have to love them like your own,” Bzeek said recently. “I know they are sick. I know they are going to die. I do my best as a human being and leave the rest to God.”

Bzeek started caring for foster children with his late wife Dawn in 1989. He first experienced the death of one of his foster children in 1991, when a little girl with a spinal disorder sadly passed away on July 4. By the mid-1990s, the Bzeeks decided to care exclusively for sick or terminally ill children, since no one else would take them in. The Bzeeks worked closely with the Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, who would call them every time there was a child in need.


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Most recently, Bzeek has welcomed a young girl with a rare brain condition into his care. She’s blind, deaf, and paralyzed in her arms and legs. He says, “The only way to communicate with her is by touch, and so I hold her. I want her to know that somebody is here for her. Somebody loves her. She is not alone.”


A living saint…


How rare. Amen!
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