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  • UAF's 131st Airlift Delivers $2.7 Million of Aid to Armenia

    UNITED ARMENIAN FUND

    1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 301
    Glendale, CA 91202
    Tel: 818.241.8900
    Fax: 818.241.6900

    For Immediate Release


    6 December 2004


    UAF's 131st Airlift Delivers $2.7 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 131st airlift arrived
    in Yerevan on December 6, delivering $2.7 million of humanitarian
    assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $2 million of medicines and medical supplies
    for this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical
    Mission Board ($996,000); AmeriCares ($737,000); MAP International
    ($167,000); and Health Partners ($55,000).

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Dr.
    Stephen Kashian of Illinois ($104,000); Dr. Haroutune Mekhjian of New
    Jersey ($94,000); Kardinal-Fings Gymnasium ($71,000); Nork Marash
    Medical Center ($57,000); Focus Armenia/Dr. Mary Alani ($54,000);
    Armenian Eyecare Project ($37,000); Armenian Missionary Association
    of America ($36,000); Michael Ohanian of Massachusetts ($36,000);
    and the Armenian General Benevolent Union ($36,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Anoush Najarian of
    Massachusetts ($22,000); Bedford/St. Martins ($21,000); Armenian
    Relief Society ($19,000); Verein Armenienhilfe Direkt of Switzerland
    ($14,000); Howard Karagheusian Commemorative Corp. ($13,000); Harut
    Chantikian of New Jersey ($12,000); and the Armenian Engineers &
    Scientists of America ($10,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $395 million of
    humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 131 airlifts and 1,136
    sea containers.

    The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America,
    the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the Armenian Missionary
    Association of America, the Armenian Relief Society, the Diocese of
    the Armenian Church of America, the Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic
    Church of America and the Lincy Foundation.

    For more information, contact the UAF office at 1101 North Pacific
    Avenue, Suite 301, Glendale, CA 91202 or call (818) 241-8900.

    ###

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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