YSEALI Spring 2017 - Rahmah Masturah:

Rahmah Masturah Photo
Participant Name: Rahmah Masturah
Project Location: Sigli, Aceh Pidie, Indonesia
Program: Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI)
Term: Spring 2017
Project Title: OenSekee Project
UConn GTDI Project Award: Application Accepted & Funding Awarded

Rahmah Masturah is a quality engineer at private consultant in Aceh, Indonesia. Having an enthusiastic in social entreprise since third year of study, she started the social project by empowering people with disability that created handmade leather wallets. After graduated, she moved to her hometown and then started Oensekee Project. Besides an engineer, she make her time trying to help people with disability around her.

Five-Year Project Goals:

To support local wisdom and empower more disable people, we are planning to develop the place as weaving education visit area. Then we plan to expand the product and supply into ASEAN site from the YSEALI Academic network.

Organization Information: OenSekee

Website: https://oensekee.wixsite.com/aceh

Sigli, located 2 hours by driving from Banda Aceh, is famous for its local handcraft. Weaving production from Pandan Leaves is the biggest potential to innovate new local handcraft. As we know that people with disabilities experience significantly as less economic participation. Hence, having a decent activity in promoting local creativity on producing weaving into hotel equipment as well as giving training and support to keep them empower the ability. Thus, OenSekee Project conducted the project of the needs and concerns of rural disabled women in the area of economic and community participation to enhance their ability to become self-sufficient.