ARC Refreshments Corp. is now on its fourth year of conducting leadership training for the country’s future leaders.
The training will be held from February 11 to 13 at the CCT Tagaytay Retreat and Training Center. The company chose 40 first-year and second- year students from different colleges and state universities to interact with some of the country’s change makers at the youth camp.
Criteria for choosing the leaders included possessing leadership qualities, classified as underprivileged students or scholars, and with hearts willing to lead and serve. The youth camp still focuses on its yearly theme “Lead, Create, Change.” Kurt Cruz, a former delegate and now an ambassador for the ARC Young Leaders Camp (ARCYCL), said the leadership training has improved from the first time the youth camp was conducted.
Though the ARCYCL sustains the same theme every year, they make sure the delegates enjoy and learn something new from the camp.
This year ARC provided seven guest speakers who could share their own leadership experience. They also invited former delegates to share their experiences and what changes the camp had done for them. Gerry Garcia, ARC executive vice president and COO, said, “It is our desire to plant the seeds of leadership and for these seeds to replicate themselves.”
For the training camp participants to be able to plant the seeds, ARC prepared activities that will test the participants’ abilities and improve their skills to be better leaders in the future.
Ferosa Marie Pablo