He used his career earnings (and endorsement money, which he made plenty of even after his retirement) to found the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, and organization dedicated to improving the lives of regular people in the DRC. He built a 170-bed hospital in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, that, since it opened in 2007, has treated more than half a million people. In recent years his focus included building schools, particularly elementary schools, in the DRC.
Not a bad legacy. RIP.
4 posted on 09/30/2024 4:40:02 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
(Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
