From Street Kid to Foster Dad of 50+ Kids | Peter Mutabazi

Peter Mutabazi ran away from an abusive father at 10 and spent five years as a street kid in Uganda. Today he's a single dad who has fostered more than 40 kids, and it all traces back to one stranger who asked his name.You might know Peter as @fosterdadflipper. In this episode, he tells Gail about the night he left home believing he'd rather die among strangers than at his father's hands. About street life, where kindness was a warning sign because it always came with a price. About the market vendor who fed him once a week for a year and a half, kept saying his name, and finally offered the one thing no street kid could refuse: three meals a day.Peter also takes us to Rwanda, where he worked rescuing children after the genocide, and describes in his own words the moment he realized the hatred he carried toward his father could turn him into the very thing he was standing in the middle of. Forgiving his father didn't mean letting him off the hook. Peter just refused to give the past a vote on his future.And he leaves us with the message this whole episode builds to: not everyone is called to foster, but everyone can do something. A meal for a struggling mom. A mowed yard. Video games with a teenager who's never had a dad show up. One person saying his name changed Peter's life. You can be that person for a kid in your town.Peter also shares some news in this episode that he hadn't told anyone yet. You'll hear it around the 40-minute mark.In this episode:03:27 – Running away at age 1008:23 – Five years as a street kid in Kampala13:16 – "He said my name": the stranger who changed everything24:04 – Rwanda and choosing to forgive his father31:08 – Room makeovers: "once they gave me a bed, I began to dream"37:51 – How to help foster kids without fostering47:05 – Life as a single foster dadAbout Peter:Peter Mutabazi is a former street kid from Uganda, an international child advocate who has worked with World Vision, Compassion International, and the Red Cross, and the founder of Now I Am Known. He is a single adoptive and foster dad in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the author of Now I Am Known and Love Does Not Conquer All. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.