Ghana's youth development effort is suffering from lack of voluntarism on the part of the youth, Mr Sylvester Tornyeava, Keta Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has observed.
He noted that poor sanitation conditions in communities were the result of the unwillingness of the youth to voluntarily tidy up their backyards and communities.
Mr Tornyeava was inaugurating a community mass literacy programme being introduced in the area by Lean-On-Foundation, a non-governmental organization, to assist people of all ages in the area to read and write and be informed on health issues such as HIV/AIDS and child safety.
He said it would be difficult to mobilize the youth under schemes that would help them to acquire productive useful skills because they would want to be paid for anything they did.
Mr Tornyeava commended the Foundation for its programme, which is in tune with the Anlo Development Plan that aims at improving standards of education in the area.
Keta, he said, already had an educational foundation, which only needed to be built upon and welcomed any group in that line.
Mr Lassey Agbenyefia, Member of Parliament (MP) for Keta, said many social problems in the area could be addressed when literacy was high.
Miss Patience Avadzie, President of the Foundation, said the group hoped to improve lives for the people through knowledge acquisition.