Mr Rabiu Mohammed, President of the Ghana Muslim Students Association (GMSA), has urged student associations to mobilize resources for voluntary work in deprived communities, to bring improvement to the lives of the people.
These communities need to be helped to overcome their socio-economic inadequacies to bring to them some comfort, he said.
He said it was the duty of the educated youth to use the knowledge and skills they had acquired to make life better for the people.
Rabiu was addressing the closing session of a three-day capacity-building workshop on leadership and communication skills in Kumasi, for Muslims student Imams and other leaders in tertiary institutions.
GMSA organised the programme under the theme "Leadership - the ultimate goal of solving the problems of society."
Topics treated included, Leadership in Contemporary Times, Governance,
Communication Skills and Globalization and the Muslim youth.
The GMSA President asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to consider making Arabic an examinable subject at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
He appealed to the government to expand the facilities in Muslim schools and ensure that dilapidated structures are rehabilitated to enhance teaching and learning.
Sheikh Ibrahim Nuamah, an Islamic Scholar, in a solidarity message, urged the participants to share their knowledge with other students groups.
They should also put into practice what they had learnt.