UAF's 147th Airlift Delivers Million Of Aid To Armenia

[Vasilian Manouk]

UAF'S 147TH AIRLIFT DELIVERS MILLION OF AID TO ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=113651
Ma y 22, 2008

GLENDALE, MAY 22, ARMENIANS TODAY - NOYAN TAPAN. The United Armenian
Fund's 147th airlift arrived in Yerevan on May 17, delivering over
million of humanitarian assistance.

The UAF itself collected .9 million of medicines and medical supplies
for this flight, donated by the Catholic Medical Mission Board (.4
million); AmeriCares (.4 million) and Direct Relief International
(,000).

Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Dr.

Stephen Kashian (,000); Foundation Semra Plus of Switzerland (,000);
Orthopedic Technique & Rehabilitation of Switzerland (,000); Gregory
H.J Park (,000); Harut Chantikian (,000) and Howard Karagheusian
Commemorative Corp. (,000).

Also contributing supplies to this airlift were: Armenian Relief
Society (,000); Fund for Armenian Relief (,000) and Armenian General
Benevolent Union (,000).

Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent 6 million of humanitarian
assistance to Armenia on board 147 airlifts and 1,575 sea containers.