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What’s parenting like after a traumatic childhood?

“I wanted to change the narrative of what a family looks like and who can take care of whoâ€

Peter Mutabazi is a Ugandan single dad who has fostered 38 children and adopted three of those kids. He lives in North Carolina in the US and these children come from different backgrounds and walks of life.

This is something that gets him regularly noticed when he’s out with his family- he’s a black man in America raising white children.

Peter was drawn to fostering and adoption because of what happened to him as a child. He was born in rural Uganda and lived in poverty without money for food, clothes or school. He ran away from home when he was 10 years old and became a homeless street kid in the capital Kampala.

Africa Daily’s Alan Kasujja spoke to Peter about growing as a vulnerable child in Uganda, life in the US and why he decided to parent so many children.

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