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

    PRESS RELEASE
    20 April 2015


    UAF delivers $9 Million of Aid
    To Armenia in Last Six Months


    Glendale, CA -The United Armenian Fund (UAF) sent $9 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 43 containers, during the last six months.


    The UAF itself collected $4.1 million of medicines and other materials
    donated by several charities, including AmeriCares ($2.6 million), Direct
    Relief International ($895,000), Catholic Medical Mission Board ($302,000),
    Fawn Grove Compassion Center ($257,000), Feed the Children Fund ($111,000),
    and MAP International ($39,000).

    Other organizations which contributed valuable goods during this period
    were: World Vision ($499,000), Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief
    ($483,000), Action Sante Armenie France ($445,000), Armenia Fund USA
    ($436,000), UMAF of France ($423,000), Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian
    Apostolic Church of America ($300,000), Armenian Ministries in UK
    ($253,000), Armenian Christian Mission of Australia ($235,000), Knights of
    Vartan ($204,000), Project Agape ($199,000), Birthlink of UK ($192,000),
    Focus on Children Now ($191,000), Armenian Lighthouse Charitable
    Organization ($142,000), Ordre of St. Lazare ($104,000), and Herman
    Hinteryan ($103,000).

    Also contributing relief supplies were: George Asadorian ($92,000), North
    Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church ($88,000), Garni
    Foundation ($84,000), Toufayan Bakeries (75,000), St. Kevork Armenian Church
    ($45,000), and Dr. Albert Phillips ($24,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $706 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 158 airlifts and 2,235 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, and Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic
    Church of America.

    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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