For most kids, “asthma” is just a word they’ve heard from parents or teachers—something serious, maybe even scary, but distant. For Charlize Sitto and Elinor Jwaydah, it became personal. Elinor remembers being a child who didn’t even know she had asthma. “I didn’t realize my coughing and shortness of breath were symptoms,” she said. “It was confusing and kind of scary, and I wish someone had explained it to me in a way I could understand.” That experience became a driving force behind her work.

Ethan Mukhtar, a talented Chaldean-American golfer from Farmington Hills, is making waves in the golfing world. A 2025 graduate of Orchard Lake St. Mary's Preparatory High School, Ethan was a four-year varsity letterwinner and a key member of the school's first-ever MHSAA Division 2 state championship-winning boys golf team in 2024.

For the first time, the U.S. Congress officially commemorated the 1933 Simele Massacre, in which thousands of Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian civilians were killed by the Iraqi Army with British involvement.