NBA officials announced this year's "Kennedy Citizenship Award," awarded the Philadelphia 76ers center Samuel - Dalembert. This award is voted by the NBA's League is a year for community service contributed the most to reward the best players or coaches. The "Kennedy Citizenship Award", it is also the Executive Chairman with the Union, the second named.
As a campaign NBA8-year veteran, Dalembert has been making unremitting efforts to serve the community. When on January 12 this year, his home since the earthquake broke out in Haiti, this 76ers center is the first time after the game, it flew back into the motherland after the earthquake relief effort.
The NBA league as the only players in Haiti, Dalembert hit not only take the lead for the filming of a public API, also donated 100,000 U.S. dollars the Haitian victims, but he was still 76 home games to Waqiao Wei Asian Centre for the UNICEF donation station, which called on the American public can lend a helping hand to the victims.
In addition, Dalembert had also set up in 2007, named his own, "Dalembert Foundation", and with UNICEF, the Red Cross together, after the earthquake in Haiti, for disaster areas suffering children living assistance provided.
. "When he sees his country needs help, he would not hesitate to lend a helping hand. All his acts of assistance are public, and also appeal to other people to join this one. In recent years, few people can be like him, will have their own spare time and even money into philanthropy. can be said that he set an example for all NBA players. "
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