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Other
donations are earmarked for charities that provide food
to poor kidney dialysis patients. Mourning, whose basketball
career was interrupted by bouts of kidney disease, received
a transplant in December 2003.
Mourning
said last week that his main goal in donating his Heat
salary is to publicize the work being done by a variety
of organizations in South Florida.
"The
impact of the money is important, but it's also to create
awareness about the impact these organizations are having
on people's lives," he said. "The more we
are able to make people aware of that, the more likely
we are to find solutions for these problems."
The
donations will be made through Mourning's foundation,
Alonzo Mourning Charities, which he founded in 1997
to assist a variety of charitable organizations in South
Florida, New Jersey and the Hampton Roads, Va., area
where he grew up.
The
foundation has donated or raised more than $1.5 million
for Miami's Children's Home Society over the past nine
years.
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