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

For Immediate Release
11 March 2006

UAF’s 137th Airlift Delivers
$3.6 Million of Aid to Armenia

Glendale, CA – The United Armenian Fund’s 137th airlift arrived
in Yerevan on March 11, delivering $3.6 million of humanitarian
assistance.

The UAF itself collected $2.9 of medicines and medical supplies for
this flight, most of which were donated by AmeriCares ($2,100,000);
Operation Blessing/Armenia Fund U.S.A. ($570,000); Brothers Brother
Foundation ($266,000) and Catholic Medical Mission Board ($39,000).

Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
Armenian General Benevolent Union ($213,000); Michael Der Boghosian
from Boston Medical Center ($166,000); Dr. Stephen Kashian ($65,000);
Nork Marash Medical Center ($42,000) and Armenian Missionary
Association of America ($28,000).

Also contributing to this airlift were: Howard Karagheusian
Commemorative Corp ($19,000): Armenian Relief Society ($15,000) and
Armenian American Health Association of Greater Washington ($9,000).

Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $428 million of
humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 137 airlifts and 1,285
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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