UNITED ARMENIAN FUND
1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 204
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel: 818.241.8900
Fax: 818.241.6900
For Immediate Release
August 9, 2008
UAF’s 148th Airlift Delivers
$5 Million of Aid to Armenia
Glendale, CA – The United Armenian Fund’s 148th airlift arrived in Yerevan
on August 9, delivering $5 million of humanitarian assistance.
The UAF itself collected over $4 million of medicines and medical supplies
for this flight, donated by AmeriCares ($2.7 million); Eli Lilly & Co. ($1.4
million); the Catholic Medical Mission Board ($110,000) and Health Partners
International of Canada ($25,000).
Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Armenian
American Medical Society of CA ($117,000); Dr. Stephen Kashian ($76,000);
the Armenian EyeCare project ($72,000); Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief
($52,000); Armenian International Ophthalmic Association ($51,000) and
Armenian Missionary Association of America ($45,000).
Also contributing supplies to this airlift were: Armenian Relief Society
($27,000); Michael Derboghosian/Boston Medical Center ($21,000); Hershey
Medical Center ($20,000) and UCLA Medical Center/Salpy Akaragian ($11,000).
Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $534 million of humanitarian
assistance to Armenia on board 148 airlifts and 1,598 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.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress