The Warehouse Areado (Lajinha/MG) received more of 50 young, sons and daughters of Partners of Coocafé in the day 10/21 (Saturday), to the 3rd Meeting of Young Cooperative. In this year, the event had the topic: Youth Leaders of Cooperatives. The CEO of Coocafé, Fernando Cerqueira, started the meeting highlighting the important performance that the young has in the every society, including in the Coocafé itself, that has many young as its employers. After that, took place the moment about awareness, with the presentation given by sergeant Leonard. He spoke about questions relevant to the region, because the numbers of accidents with young is very large. Completed this presentation, manager in cooperatives and consultant of Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Everton Alves, presented the lecture about Young Leaders of Cooperatives . He presented data about rural youth and alternatives for successful with agricultural activities.

Later, lunch was served in the Coocafé refectory and the young had a relaxed moment with games and they participated of a fun competition as the “pie in the face”, with questions about the lectures. The teams went into an atmosphere of fair play showing to be conscious about the questions of the meeting. During the time of event evaluation, the teams also performed theatrical presentation and artistic about the daily of the rural youth.

To quit the meeting, during the coffee break, the young  watched a musical presentation of the Band Hope, expressing great satisfaction by participating of the event, performed by partnership between Coocafé and Sicoob Credicaf.