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  • UAF's 128th Airlift Delivers $3.3 Million of Aid to Armenia

    UNITED ARMENIAN FUND
    1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 301
    Glendale, CA 91202
    Tel: 818.241.8900
    Fax: 818.241.6900

    For Immediate Release
    3 May 2004
    Contact: 818.241.8900

    UAF's 128th Airlift Delivers $3.3 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 128th airlift arrived in Yerevan
    on May 1, delivering $3.3 million of humanitarian assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $2.9 million of medicines and medical supplies for
    this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical Mission
    Board
    ($2.5 million); Health Partners ($150,000); MAP International ($108,000);
    and AmeriCares ($103,000).

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Dr.
    Stephen Kashian of Illinois ($57,000); Armenian Canadian Medical Association
    ($52,000); Dr. Viken Garabedian of California ($52,000); Chene France
    ($39,000); and Shoebox Sharing ($31,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Armenian General Benevolent Union
    ($17,000); Harut Chantikian of New Jersey ($15,000); Armenian Eyecare
    Project ($14,000); Prof. Ernst Leumann of Switzerland ($13,000); and U.S.
    Department of Agriculture ($12,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $383 million of humanitarian
    assistance to Armenia on board 128 airlifts and 1,043 sea containers.

    The UAF is the collective effort of the Armenian Assembly of America, the
    Armenian General Benevolent Union, the Armenian Missionary Association of
    America, the Armenian Relief Society, the Diocese of the Armenian Church of
    America, the 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 301, Glendale, CA 91202 or call (818) 241-8900.

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