YSEALI Sping 2018 - Abdul Syamsuddin:

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Participant Name: Abdul Rozaq Syamsuddin
Project Location: Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Program: Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Spring 2018
Project Title: Lactashare
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Abdul Rozaq Syamsuddin is a researcher and humanitarian. Through high school and university he assisted in voluntary laboratory work and helped many NGO's that focused on health and education. He is interested in electrical engineering, medicine, and disaster relief and prevention. He is currently researching antennas, specifically converting wireless into electric currents. He has also worked on making a portable scanner that would detect landslides.

Five-Year Project Goals:

  • Establish Lactashare as a well known human milk bank
  • Have at least 5 milk processing across Indonesia
  • Partnering with Ministry of Health to reduce mortality & morbidity of infant by doing breastfeed and got support in financial and moral from government

Organization Information: Lactashare

Website: https://www.lactashare.id/

Lactashare is a web-based service and mobile app (Android) that brings together donors who have excess milk and breast milk, and recipients of ASI who need it on the basis of medical indications. Lactashare offers breastfeeding sharing services by providing clinical lab checks, expeditions and Mother's milk certificates. Lactashare's mission is to build an integrated breastfeeding donor system with a variety of preventive and educational promotive services around lactation and child health. Their vision is to become the breast milk research center in Indonesia.