College students have come up with a scheme to work and have fun at the same time.

Through the new volunteer group, College Volunteer Corps (CVC), locals between the ages of 18 to 25 hope to build fellowship through community service, 20-year-old CVC spokesman Belcario Thomas told The Royal Gazette yesterday.

Mr. Thomas said the organisation was the brainchild of CVC project director Stephen Bourne, 23, who started developing the idea last year.

Michelle Correia, who is also a spokesperson for CVC, said the first project on the group's list was to paint the exterior of Salvation Army's Harbour Light shelter at King Street and its Emergency Housing Shelter Office at Parsons Road in August.

Other project ideas include a trash-a-thon, a shore-line clean-up at the Aquarium and Zoo, and landscaping at the Windreach Farm in Warwick.

Miss Correia said the organisation hoped to attract at least 50 students between the ages of 18 and 25 to participate in the projects which are designed to help the students have fun while giving something back to the community.

The CVC also hoped to carry out service projects until the end of the summer every year, Miss Correia added.

The 20-year-old explained that in addition to having fun and giving to the community, the students will be able to meet and get to know people through CVC projects who they will be working with in the future.

"College age students are the working force of tomorrow,'' she added. "We should start working together now.'' For further information on CVC contact the Centre on Philanthropy at 292-5320.

Michelle Correia and Belcario Thomas. CVC was organised so college students could give something back to the community while having fun.