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  • UAF's 146th Airlift Delivers $5 Million of Aid to Armenia

    UNITED ARMENIAN FUND
    1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 204
    Glendale, CA 91202
    Tel: 818.241.8900
    Fax: 818.241.6900

    PRESS RELEASE
    March 15, 2008


    UAF's 146th Airlift Delivers $5 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 146th airlift arrived in Yerevan
    on March 15, delivering almost $5 million of humanitarian assistance.
    The UAF itself collected $4.1 million of medicines and medical supplies for
    this flight, donated by Hope For The City ($3.1 million); the Catholic
    Medical Mission Board ($432,000); AmeriCares ($412,000); Health Partners
    International of Canada ($89,000); and Direct Relief International
    ($88,000).
    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: The
    Armenian EyeCare Project ($265,000); Dr. Hrair Hovaguimian ($65,000); Dr.
    Walter Bandazian ($65,000); American University of Armenia ($63,000);
    International Academy of Telepathology from Germany ($53,000); Howard
    Karagheusian Commemorative Corp. ($50,000); Fund for Armenian Relief
    ($49,000); Armenian Missionary Association of America ($46,000) and Armen
    Mkhsian ($32,000).
    Also contributing supplies to this airlift were: Dr. Samvel Malayan
    ($20,000); Dr. Stephen Kashian ($18,000); Armenian Gospel Mission ($17,000);
    The Fletcher School ($12,000); and Armenian American Medical Society of CA
    ($9,000).
    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $520 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 146 airlifts and 1,546 sea containers.
    The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America,
    Armenian General Benevolent Union, Armenian Missionary Association of
    America, Armenian Relief Society, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America,
    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 204, Glendale, CA 91202 or call (818) 241-8900.
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