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  • UAF's 145th Airlift Delivers $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 15, 2007


    UAF's 145th Airlift Delivers
    $6 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 145th airlift arrived in Yerevan
    on December 15, delivering over $6 million of humanitarian assistance.
    The UAF itself collected $3.8 million of medicines and medical supplies for
    this flight, donated by AmeriCares ($2.6 million); the Catholic Medical
    Mission Board ($870,000); Health Partners International of Canada
    ($175,000); MAP international ($90,000) and Direct Relief International
    ($4,000).
    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Fund for
    Armenian Relief ($2 million); Dr. Stephen Kashian ($62,000); Dr. Hrair
    Garabedian ($40,000); HEROS ($32,000); Armenia Fund/Project Cure ($23,000);
    Armenian American Medical Society of CA ($23,000); Armenian Missionary
    Association of America ($21,000) and The Armenian Relief Society ($20,000).
    Also contributing supplies to this airlift were: Society of Orphaned
    Armenian Relief ($19,000); Birthlink of UK ($17,000); Armenian American
    Cultural Association ($15,000); Walter Bandazian ($9,000) and Konnect9
    Organization of UK ($8,000).
    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $512 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 145 airlifts and 1,518 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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