Dissa Ahdanisa's Stories

2018 is coming to an end and one of the highlight of this year is to participate in Hult Prize competition in our campus, APU. Not only that it was one of the most well-known and prestigious student-competition for social entrepreneurship, but it has given me a chance to revisit the reason Fingertalk exists in the first place, and now, together with my husband and my brother, we are given the chance to spread our wings and make it bigger. We once again, are finding our why.  The Hult Prize is the world’s biggest engine for the launch of for good, for-profit startups emerging from university all around the world. The competition challenges young people to create ideas in tackling social issues and compete for the final prize of USD$ 1 Million. This year’s challenge is “youth unemployment”. As World Economic Forum 2018 reported that one in five youth globally is neither employed, nor engaged in formal education, or involved in training, youth unemployment is an issue

Some people were curious on how I met my husband. After reading Hijrah’s post on how we met (follow his Instagram @hijrah25) I suddenly remember the episode in our relationship when we were constantly living in different time zones and different continents for couple months.  Before Hijrah went to United States, I had a chance to go to New Zealand for the prestigious YBLI program, alhamdulillah. Unfortunate for me, Hijrah had his birthday three days after I left Indonesia. However, being in the very south of the world, I got to celebrate his birthday quite early. Easily, I was the first birthday wisher, six hours earlier than anyone else, all the way from the land of the long white cloud. As you can tell, I am pretty proud of that ;) Then I went around Wellington and Christchurch, while Hijrah was in Banda Aceh preparing for his exciting adventure.  Hijrah then went off to Washington D.C for the prestigious YSEALI program. Through my mum and brother who sent him off at t