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UAF’s 133rd Airlift Delivers $5.2 Million of Aid to Armenia

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

25 April 2005

UAF’s 133rd Airlift Delivers $5.2 Million of Aid to Armenia

Glendale, CA – The United Armenian Fund’s 133rd airlift arrived in
Yerevan on April 23, delivering $5.2 million of humanitarian
assistance.

The UAF itself collected $4.8 million of medicines and medical
supplies for this flight, most of which were donated by AmeriCares
($2.3 million), the Catholic Medical Mission Board ($1.7 million) and
Eli Lilly ($788,000).

Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
Nork Marash Medical Center ($111,000); Armenian Missionary Association
of America ($47,000); American University of Armenia ($34,000); Howard
Karagheusian Commemorative Corp. ($29,000); and Accuware Consultants
($22,000).

Also contributing to this airlift were: Srbouhi Hairapetian ($17,000);
Shushi Music School Society ($16,000); and California State
University, Northridge ($10,000).

Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $408 million of
humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 133 airlifts and 1,172 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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