What will Damar Hamlin do with the $8.6 million he was given after suffering cardiac arrest in the middle of an NFL game?

The story of Damar Hamlin, who shocked the world eight days ago by suffering cardiac arrest in the middle of an NFL regular season football game, adds positive chapters every day. And while he is recovering in a hospital in Buffalo, where he was transferred after the collapse at the Cincinnati stadium, he decides what to do with the $ 8.6 million received in campaign donations, which he had aimed to raise before last Monday ‘ just $2,500 to buy toys.

Bills safety intends to support young people with education and sports with what was generated in its “GoFundMe”, which unexpectedly began to multiply funds.

He will also use the proceeds from a new “Did We Win?” T-shirt. (Did we win?) and heart shaped hands, to raise money for the Cincinnati Trauma Hospital where he was admitted after being revived on the playing field.

The 24-year-old has partnered with The Giving Back Fund, a non-profit that helps athletes and celebrities manage their donations, to organize The Chasing M’s Foundation charitable fund. GoFundMe representatives notified the international agency POPE that the crowdfunding platform will soon transfer the money received from Hamlin.

“We are working as a team to facilitate the move as soon as it becomes practical”said Giving Back Fund.

Hamlin’s injury and recovery created a network of solidarity in the football community, with fan and player donations in Hamlin’s honor, all responding to charity rallies on Twitter.

The largest public donation through Tuesday was $33,333 and came from ADCO Electrical Corp of New York.

Similarly, Carl Fochler donated $25,003 on behalf of sustainable dry cleaning company Sheets Laundry Club. Fochler stayed up late waiting for an update on Hamlin’s health. The next day he looked online for news and saw a video of Hamlin talking about him founding him.

“I knew in that moment that it was something we had to do”she indicated, after discussing it with her partner.

He pointed to a Twitter message in which Hamlin said he would rather run into the tunnel at the start of the match with his teammates, but said instead: “God is using you differently”.

“When he wakes up and is Damar again and sees the $8 million, he’s got a lot of plans to make and there’s going to be good vibes everywhere,” Fochler began.

Despite his 24 years, Hamlin is already an experienced accident manalthough none had had consequences as serious as the one that led to the suspension of the game between the Bills and Bengals with six minutes left in the first quarter, when the locals won 7-3.

Born on March 24, 1998 in McKees Rocks, a small town of fewer than 6,000 residents on the outskirts of Pittsburgh and on the banks of the Ohio River, he began his career in the sport of oval ball as soon as he entered high school in central, Catholic Pittsburgh.

Although he was also a member of the basketball and track and field teams during high school, his talents for the sport that Americans call dry “soccer” (what Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Neymar play is “soccer”) opened the doors. Arriving at the University of Pittsburgh in 2016 and there taking a degree in Communications and also a specialization in Sociology, but above all representing the Panthers in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship.

Hamlin is also the founder and owner of Chasing M’s, a business dedicated to manufacturing and marketing apparel. The brand, as he explains on his website, is aimed at “those who have a dream and pursue it, who want something more and cannot be satisfied with being one of the masses”. Through Chasing M’s, Bills’ security donated clothing to Sto-Rox School District, a high school in his native McKees Rocks.