The Help Your Neighbor action group has to date received around 45 tons of food aid from individuals and organizations.The group is now negotiating for a second cargo carrier to transport the humanitarian aid to Syria, one of the group members Lilit Galstyan told Tert.am.She is happy that numerous Armenian citizens – pensioners, actors and workers of culture – made their donations. "Six thousand and five hundred students sent SMS, which is evidence of their compassion," she said.The first consignment of humanitarian aid was sent on October 15.Dino Gold Mining, as well as many other companies, has joined the action.During the first day, the Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) and Syrian-Armenian philanthropists gathered US $32,700 for 327 Armenian families in Aleppo.Winter clothes and blankets will be distributed among the Armenians that arrived from Syria this summer.Ms Galstyan said that a new route has to be chosen as airplanes of Syrian Airlines are not entering Turkey's airspace.
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