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  • UAF Press Release

    Glendale, CA 91202
    Tel: 818.241.8900
    Fax: 818.241.6900


    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    30 JULY 2005

    UAF's 134th Airlift Delivers

    $2.3 Million of Aid to Armenia

    Glendale, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 134th airlift arrived in
    Yerevan on July 30, delivering $2.3 million of humanitarian assistance.

    The UAF itself collected $1 million of medicines and medical supplies
    for this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical
    Mission Board ($383,000); AmeriCares ($244,000), Eli Lilly ($243,000)
    and MAP International ($217,000) .

    Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
    Fund for Armenian Relief ($395,000); The Armenian Eyecare Project
    ($153,000); Tigran Sarkisyan of California ($100,000); Michael
    DerBedrossian of Massachusetts ($87,000); Dr. Stephen Kashian of
    Illinois ($74,000); Harut Chantikian of New Jersey ($62,000); American
    University of Armenia ($54,000) and Armenian General Benevolent Union
    ($34,000).

    Also contributing to this airlift were: Armenian American Cultural
    Association ($27,000); Armenian Students Association ($25,000); Dr.
    Andranik Ovassapian of Illinois ($25,000) and Accuware Consultants
    ($20,000).

    Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $412 million of
    humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 134 airlifts and 1,216
    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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