Kings Center Doubles as Voice for Native Haiti

The Kings, who are in town to play the Knicks, were in Boston for the one-year anniversary of the earthquake on Wednesday. Dalembert commemorated the event by writing another check, this one for $50,000, to Unicef, to help deal with a cholera outbreak. In 12 months, he has donated $650,000 toward the recovery effort, much of it directed toward medical assistance and water purification.

For the last year, Dalembert — the N.B.A.’s only Haitian player — has been the face and the primary voice of the league’s aid efforts. The league and its players union donated $1 million to Unicef last year. More recently, Dalembert and Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers lent their support to Unicef’s Haiti 365 campaign.

On Wednesday night, players for the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Clippers wore shirts during warm-ups and ribbons to raise awareness and promote the aid work of Project Medishare, which Dalembert also supports. Last year, his efforts were recognized with the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award.

Dalembert has visited his home country at least a half-dozen times in the last year, finding a mix of hope and anguish. Progress has been excruciatingly slow, impeded by political instability and corruption.

“You go back over there and see 90 percent of the place is still the same,” Dalembert said. “Nothing has been done. It’s frustrating to see that your own country, your own people, the government, is not really moving forward or really putting things together, strategizing things to make a difference or trying to maximize the help coming to us.”