UNITED ARMENIAN FUND
1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 301
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel: 818.241.8900
Fax: 818.241.6900
For Immediate Release
6 December 2004
UAF’s 131st Airlift Delivers $2.7 Million of Aid to Armenia
Glendale, CA – The United Armenian Fund’s 131st airlift arrived
in Yerevan on December 6, delivering $2.7 million of humanitarian
assistance.
The UAF itself collected $2 million of medicines and medical supplies
for this flight, most of which were donated by the Catholic Medical
Mission Board ($996,000); AmeriCares ($737,000); MAP International
($167,000); and Health Partners ($55,000).
Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Dr.
Stephen Kashian of Illinois ($104,000); Dr. Haroutune Mekhjian of New
Jersey ($94,000); Kardinal-Fings Gymnasium ($71,000); Nork Marash
Medical Center ($57,000); Focus Armenia/Dr. Mary Alani ($54,000);
Armenian Eyecare Project ($37,000); Armenian Missionary Association
of America ($36,000); Michael Ohanian of Massachusetts ($36,000);
and the Armenian General Benevolent Union ($36,000).
Also contributing to this airlift were: Anoush Najarian of
Massachusetts ($22,000); Bedford/St. Martins ($21,000); Armenian
Relief Society ($19,000); Verein Armenienhilfe Direkt of Switzerland
($14,000); Howard Karagheusian Commemorative Corp. ($13,000); Harut
Chantikian of New Jersey ($12,000); and the Armenian Engineers &
Scientists of America ($10,000).
Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $395 million of
humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 131 airlifts and 1,136
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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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress