The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services is facing a foster home shortage.

The number of foster homes countywide has declined over the past decade from nearly 6,000 to just over 4,000, and there are even fewer homes for sick children.

Yet, Mohamed Bzeek of Azusa has been opening his home to terminally-ill kids since 1995.

He has been caring for his 8-year-old foster daughter since she was less than two-months old. He also cares for his 21-year-old biological son who has brittle bone disease.

“I never think of her as a foster kid,” said Bzeek. “I take her because she knows she has a family. She has someone who cares about her someone who loves her in her hard time.”

Bzeek started fostering when he met his wife who passed away in 2015. She was already a foster mother before they got married.

A nurse helps Bzeek during the weekdays, however the single dad, he does much of the work alone.

He’s made it his job to care for kids during their final days. So far, ten children have died in his home.

“When my first kid died, I was crying for three days. It was my first experience with death. It’s really very hard you know,” Bzeek said.

The devout Muslim takes refuge from loss at a local mosque. Each kid may be terminally ill, but he believes only God knows when one of his children will die.

“I do what I can do as a human being because I have limitation, and after that I leave the rest to God,” Bzeek said.