In the summer of 2013, James Savannah became a full-time single parent almost overnight.
The change came after his ex-wife hit a rough patch and their kids moved in with him. He went from seeing his kids only during school breaks to being their full-time caregiver.
With three children to care for alone, the transition was rough, to say the least — and was made even more difficult by the fact that he was in between jobs and didn’t know where his next paycheck was coming from.
“I cried hard because they deserve more than what I was giving them at the time,” says Savannah.
But this hardship only made him more determined to succeed at one thing: being a great dad. “I just had to step my game up,” he says.
The news kept feeding him the story that there aren’t enough “good father figures” anymore, which bothered him a lot.
“That’s not true,” Savanah says. “There are so many fathers that inspire me on a daily basis.”
Feeling both personally concerned and universally motivated to create a sense of community among the great fathers of the world, he decided to do something about it.
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Savannah created a hashtag, #ProudDads, and started tagging his own photos and tweets as well as photos of others dads doing an amazing job.
The goal was simple. “Let’s just show what good fathers really are,” he said.
