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  • UAF's 154th Airlift Delivers $4.6 Million of Aid to Armenia

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

    December 19, 2009

    UAF's 154th Airlift Delivers $4.6 Million of Aid to Armenia


    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 154th airlift arrived in Yerevan
    on December 19, delivering $4.6 million of humanitarian assistance.

    For this flight, the UAF itself collected $4 million of medicines and
    medical supplies donated by various charities, including AmeriCares ($1.9
    million), Catholic Medical Mission Board ($1.9 million) and Direct Relief
    International ($95,000)

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were Armenian
    EyeCare Project ($137,000), Dr. Mary Alani/Focus Armenia ($132,000), Howard
    Karagheusian Commemorative Corp. ($58,000), Armenian Missionary Association
    of America ($36,000), Fund for Armenian Relief ($34,000), Dr. Stephan
    Kashian ($26,000), Kapriel Ghambarji ($25,000), George Asadorian ($23,000)
    and St. Vartanantz Armenian Apostolic Church ($21,000).

    Also contributing supplies to this airlift were Armenian Relief Society
    ($13,000), Armenian Bone Marrow Registry ($10,000), Knights of Vartan
    ($10,000) and Armenian Support Project ($8,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $580 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 154 airlifts and 1,761 sea containers.

    The UAF is the collective effort of the 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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