Trinidad Rotary Club Continuing Local Projects

  • Yearly purchase and distribute Illustrated Scholastic Dictionaries to every 3rd grade student in Las Animas County since 2001.
  • Sponsor an area youth for the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA) each year.
  • Award a Rotary Scholarship to a Las Animas County student attending TSJC.
  • Trinidad Rotary Club is a sponsor for the Water Festival since the festival’s beginning.
  • Regularly contribute books to the Carnegie Children’s Library.
    Carnegie Library projects: Purchased environmental conservation education materials and furniture and projector screen for the youth section at the library.
  • Financial support to Southern Colorado Repertory Theater (SCRT) start up and continuing youth workshops.
  • Support our Troops through USO by purchasing phone cards twice a year.
  • Provide hot cider and hot chocolate for the “Trinidad Christmas Tree and Train Lighting Ceremony.”
  • Makes regular donations to the Rotary Foundation for the battle against Polio and the Community Grants fund that our District to uses to fund local projects.

Completed Projects

Las Animas County
  • Purchased a refrigerator and 20c’ freezer for the Fisher’s Peak Soup Kitchen.
  • Raised and donated the funds to the local Good Samaritan Clinic.
  • Rotary “Gearheads” bowled for Artocade.
  • Promoted and assisted the Recycle Group to initiate the recycling events.
  • Spearheaded fund raising for Mt. San Rafael flight for life landing pad.
  • Rotarians participated in clean-up project in Branson Community Center.
  • Rotarians participated in Trinidad Downtown clean-up, planting and weeding one of four corner concrete planters at the entrance to downtown.
Projects Helping Neighbors outside of our Community
  • Contributed to disaster relief for the Colorado Waldo Canon Fire.
  • Provided funds for disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina victims in the southern United States.
  • Funded “Shelter Boxes” for earthquake victims in Haiti.
  • Financed installation of potable water system to two villages in South America.
  • Supported a project to give eye exams and provide eyeglasses to children Chinandega, Nicaragua.
  • Assisted 40 elderly individuals in Argentina obtain cataract
    operation.