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  • UAF Reaches $400 Million Mark In Relief Supplies to Armenia

    PRESS RELEASE

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


    For Immediate Release


    28 February 2005


    UAF Reaches $400 Million Mark
    In Relief Supplies to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 132nd airlift arrived
    in Yerevan on February 27, delivering $3.2 million of humanitarian
    assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $2.6 million of medicines and medical supplies
    for this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical
    Mission Board ($2.4 million) and AmeriCares ($196,000).

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
    Medical Outreach for Armenians ($170,000); Nork Marash Medical Center
    ($101,000); Armenian General Benevolent Union ($80,000); Armenian
    Eye Care Project ($31,000); Harut Chantikian of New Jersey ($26,000);
    Dr. Stephen Kashian of Illinois ($23,000); and Fund for Armenian Relief
    ($22,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Innotech Projects
    Inc. ($19,000); American University of Armenia ($17,000); Glendale
    Ghapan Sister City Association ($17,000); Howard Karagheusian
    Commemorative Corp. ($16,000); Bay Area Friends of Armenia ($11,000);
    and Armenian Gospel Mission ($11,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $400 million of
    humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 132 airlifts and 1,153
    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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