Mutombo comes to Yale
Humanitarian NBA star visits patients at Yale-New Haven
To the average American, Dikembe Mutombo is best known as a Georgetown basketball prodigy, a member of the Hoya trifecta of centers including Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning, whose tenacious defense continues to impress NBA crowds.
But in central Africa the lore surrounding Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacques Mutombo extends well beyond the hardwood. His stats in his birthplace, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reflect tremendous humanitarian effort -- helping provide polio vaccines for 8.2 million children, breaking ground on a new 300-bed hospital, and...
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