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Fought off 6 machete armed men to protect 37 sleeping orphans.
24-year-old Anthony Omari woke up to find a group of armed thieves in his bedroom at the Faraja Children's Home in Ngong, Kenya.
It was the orphanage which he ran with mother Martha Bosire, that was housing 37 children at the time.
It was the fourth break-in that month, so Omari was ready this time. He grabbed a hammer he kept under his bed and charged at the men, forcing them outside.
But as he turned back to calm the crying children at the door, one of the attackers struck him in the face with a machete.
Despite the horrific wound, Omari managed to lock the front door behind him before passing out.
The injury required 11 stitches and left a long scar from his forehead down his cheek.
He was discharged from the hospital after two days and returned to the orphanage, he didn't want to leave them for too long unsafe.
Omari's story went viral when a student posted on it on reddit, asking for any help, and what happened next was incredible.
Within days, more than 3,600 donors from all 50 U.S. states and 46 countries had contributed over $80,000.
The funds paid for a new fence, security guards, beds the children had been sleeping on the floor and other essentials.
Anthony Omari later earned a civil engineering degree, started his own construction company, and continues to visit the children at Faraja regularly.
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