By Samuel Oladipupo Essoodee
Raheem Sterling will pay for the funeral of Crystal Palace youth player, Damary Dawkins, who died in March aged 13.
Manchester City winger Sterling supported a campaign to find a suitable stem cell donor for Damary, who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
“Damary was a special young man who touched a lot of lives, including my own,” Sterling said.
The England international, 24, plans to attend the funeral on Friday.
He described Damary as “an example to us all” who was “positive until the end”.
The teenager’s family had set up a GoFundMe page to raise £15,000 to give Damary the “best send off and celebration of life.
