In addition to his sports achievements, Mutombo has worked extensively for charitable and humanitarian causes. He has served as an ambassador for the sport, particularly in the development of the Basketball Africa League, which completed its second season in May. Additionally, Mutombo was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
In 1997, two years before retiring from the NBA, Mutombo established the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation with a mission to improve education and quality of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His foundation led the building of a 170-bed hospital in Kinshasa, the capital city, and that facility has treated nearly a half-million people regardless of their ability to pay for care.
Mutombo also speaks nine languages and also has served on the boards of many organizations. Some of those include Special Olympics International, the CDC Foundation and the National Board for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
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