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Abstract
One of the pressing challenges of many cooperatives is ensuring second-liners and successors who will continue a movement in a genuinely cooperative way. The aim of this chapter is to highlight how PHCCI-MPC Tacloban has successfully run a youth arts program for 13 years, and, in the process, producing six of its tutees as incumbent officers of the PHCCI Laboratory Cooperative and potential future leaders of the guardian cooperative. This chapter specifically delves into the youth’s significant experience in the Summer Tutee-Friendly Program, and how this arts program has transformed the young lives of these tutees into Lab Coop officers. This phenomenological study gathered data using key informant interviews as source materials. The chapter concludes that PHCCI-MPC’s Tutee-Friendly Program has discovered and developed not only the talents and skills of the young but also subliminally developed their leadership potentials. Furthermore, this study encourages cooperatives to continually invest on and empower the youth, having much to give through their positive ideals and courage as they respond creatively and innovatively to the pressing challenges that they experience. This will, in turn, develop them