Chamber President Martin Manna said the activists postponed the rally at the request of the chamber while it meets this week with Alexander, Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, as facilitator; and Sens. Jim Runestad, R-White Lake and Michael MacDonald, R-Macomb Township, who represent large Chaldean constituencies and asked to be a part of the conversation. "Our goal...
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Some Chaldean leaders encouraged by Trump’s remarks on Iraqi deportations
Some Chaldean advocates are encouraged by President Donald Trump's remarks in Warren that appeared to say he would work to help allow Iraqi immigrants who face deportation to stay in the U.S. But the Chaldean leaders add that they are looking for specific action after years of seeing people in their community get detained and deported by immigration authorities. Hundreds of...
Martin Manna: Making sure Chaldeans count, in the Census and beyond
The Chaldean community in metro Detroit has grown into the largest outside of Iraq, its war-torn native land from where hundreds of thousands have fled since the early 2000s. In metro Detroit, the community faces unique challenges, from deportation and accurate representation in the upcoming U.S. Census to the vaping bans hurting Chaldean-owned smoke shops, said Martin Manna,...
Oakland University School of Medicine partners with the Chaldean Community Foundation
"Through our partnership with the Chaldean Community Foundation, we found incredible people who wanted to help out and did so by helping provide funding and volunteers for tutoring and coaching," Triska says. The program has a strong emphasis on literacy. “These kids are very good at math and science, but their biggest issue is reading,” says third-year medical student...
Crain’s Best-Managed Nonprofit 2019 Finalist- Chaldean Community Foundation
Over the past five years, the number of people served by the Chaldean Community Foundation has grown from a few thousand each year to nearly 35,000. Much of the demand was spurred by the surge in Iraqi and Syrian refugees during the last administration. But the number of people coming to the foundation hasn’t trickled off despite the shift in federal policies that has kept...
Giving Hearts to Support Survivors
One in eight women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer. That means every two minutes a woman in the U.S. hears the words no one ever wants to hear. They have cancer. Fedaa Al Sammak was that one in eight. Her life changed in 2018 following her diagnosis. Though she, like many women, was able to find it at an early stage, when the cancer is most treatable, it...