Peter Mutabazi and family. PHOTO: COURTESY OF PETER MUTABAZI
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Peter Mutabazi is a single foster parent who shares his journey on social media to show others that families don't need to be the same race — and to encourage other men to be active dads.
"I really want to inspire others," he tells PEOPLE before Father's Day. "Men, we have the responsibility of being in the kids' lives. It's not a job for just moms."
To date, 49-year-old Mutabazi has fostered 34 children and adopted one, and he's not stopping soon. Currently he has six children — including his adopted son Anthony, 17, and foster kids ages 9, 8, 8, 7 and 21 months — living with him at home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"I want to change the narrative," he says. "Actually, men, we can be dads for kids who need us. Of the 34 kids I've [fostered], I noticed that none of them have ever said, 'I wish we had a mom.' No one has said that. Why? Because no one had ever had a dad."
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