UNITED ARMENIAN FUND 1101 N. Pacific Avenue # 301
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel: 818.241.8900
Fax: 818.241.6900
For Immediate Release December 9, 2006
UAF’s 141st Airlift Delivers
$5.7 Million of Aid to Armenia

Glendale, CA – The United Armenian Fund’s 141st airlift arrived in
Yerevan on December 9, delivering over $5.7 million of humanitarian
assistance.

The UAF itself collected $4.7 million of medicines and medical
supplies for this flight, most of which were donated by AmeriCares
($4.6 million); Health Partners International of Canada ($64,000);
Catholic Medical Mission Board ($14,000) and MAP International
($10,000).

Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were:
Armenian General Benevolent Union ($300,000); Pfizer, Inc. ($200,000);
Stephen M. Kashian ($69,000); Armenian Gospel Mission ($69,000); Harut
Chantikian ($51,000); Nork Marash Medical Center ($46,000) and Fund
for Armenian Relief ($46,000).

Also contributing to this airlift were: Armenian Missionary
Association of America ($44,000); American University of Armenia
($33,000); Birthlink of UK ($28,000); Society for Orphaned Armenian
Relief ($26,000); Dr. Samuel Malayan ($19,000) and Armenian Relief
Society – Ani Chapter ($13,000).

Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $456 million of
humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 141 airlifts and 1,392 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 301, Glendale, CA 91202 or call (818) 241-8900.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress