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  • UAF's 137th Airlift Delivers $3.6 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
    11 March 2006

    UAF's 137th Airlift Delivers
    $3.6 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 137th airlift arrived
    in Yerevan on March 11, delivering $3.6 million of humanitarian
    assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $2.9 of medicines and medical supplies for
    this flight, most of which were donated by AmeriCares ($2,100,000);
    Operation Blessing/Armenia Fund U.S.A. ($570,000); Brothers Brother
    Foundation ($266,000) and Catholic Medical Mission Board ($39,000).

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
    Armenian General Benevolent Union ($213,000); Michael Der Boghosian
    from Boston Medical Center ($166,000); Dr. Stephen Kashian ($65,000);
    Nork Marash Medical Center ($42,000) and Armenian Missionary
    Association of America ($28,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Howard Karagheusian
    Commemorative Corp ($19,000): Armenian Relief Society ($15,000) and
    Armenian American Health Association of Greater Washington ($9,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $428 million of
    humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 137 airlifts and 1,285
    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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