GLENDALE, CA - The United Armenian Fund's 123rd airlift arrived in Yerevan on May 31, delivering $2.5 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 ($1 million); MAP International ($455,000); and AmeriCares ($271,000).

Other organizations which contributed goods for this airlift were: Cryomech, Inc. ($128,000); Harut Chantikian of New Jersey ($104,000); Armenian Missionary Association of America ($48,000); Foote Hospital ($30,000); Armenian Gospel Mission, Inc. ($26,000); and Dr. Viken Garabedian of California ($24,000).

Also contributing to this airlift were: Rotary Club of Livermore ($20,000); Shoebox Sharing Project ($20,000); Anahid Yeremian of California ($18,000); Armenian Relief Society ($16,000); United Methodist Committee on Relief ($14,000); and Dr. Stephen Kashian of Illinois ($14,000).

Since its inception in 1989, the UAF has sent $361 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 123 airlifts and 932 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.