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  • UAF's 129th Airlift Delivers $1 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
    28 June 2004
    Contact: 818.241.8900

    UAF's 129th Airlift Delivers $1 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 129th airlift arrived in Yerevan
    on June 26, delivering $1 million of humanitarian assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $262,000 of medicines and medical supplies for this
    flight, most of which were donated by AmeriCares ($138,000) and the Catholic
    Medical Mission Board ($123,000).

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Armenian
    Eyecare Project ($351,000); Armenian Missionary Association of America
    ($78,000); Dr. Mary Alani/Focus Armenia ($62,000); Medical Outreach for
    Armenians ($53,000); Foundation Semra ($30,000); Armenian American Medical
    Association of California and Knights of Vartan - Sevan Tahlij ($24,000);
    Armenian Canadian Medical Association ($22,000); and Nork Marash Medical
    Center ($14,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Dr. Robert Garabedian of California
    ($12,000); Arabkir United Children's Charity Foundation ($11,000); Harut
    Chantikian of New Jersey ($11,000); E. Cherian/George Washington University
    ($11,000); and Dr. Elizabeth Weller of Pennsylvania ($10,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $385 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 129 airlifts and 1,064 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.
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