Today, the organisation reaches over 2,000 street-connected children annually in Delhi and supports a further 1,200 children in remote areas of Uttarakhand. “When I first heard about children’s co-operatives and a national conference dedicated to them, I was genuinely intrigued,” he says. The ICA-AP Youth Committee serves as the primary platform for promoting youth participation and leadership in co-operatives in the region. This year, ICA-AP hosts the fifth Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit in Hangzhou, which also marks 10 years since the inaugural summit. And since 2023, the Singapore National Co-operative Federation has been running the Emerging Leaders Programme to strengthen the pipeline of future co-operative leaders.