bbbServing Trinity and New Port Richey Townships in Pasco County Florida

The Rotary Club of Trinity was chartered in 1997. Part of District 6950 in Trinity, Florida, the Trinity club is comprised of 50 members and meets every Friday afternoon at 12:15 p.m. in the Heritage Springs Country Club. Please feel free to contact us for more information about upcoming meetings or membership information.

Service Accomplishments:

Each year the Rotary Club of Trinity welcomes the public to participate in several events. Major events scheduled this year include the annual Black-Tie Dinner Auction, Art Auction, and Al Arzu Memorial Golf Tournament. The proceeds from these events enable the Club to continue providing needed services not only for the children in our local community here in West Pasco, but also for our world community.

Listed below are recent projects supported by the Rotary Club of Trinity:

Formed the Rotary Club of Trinity Foundation.

Support Make A Wish Foundation with a "horse for therapy" and sent a child and their family to Disneyworld

We were pleased to host the New Zealand GSE team in our homes and at our normal meeting. Lead by Henry Davies, of D9940, New Zealand, we met Anna Head, Matthew Manderson, Jeff Scoringe, and Shay Michelle Twigden all of the North Island in New Zealand.

Contributed to Polio Plus Partners to provide for the necessary tools to achieve a world a without polio.

Worked on Friday afternoons with the Genesis Interact Club at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen.

Supported an Indian Orphanage devastated by the wrath of the tsunami.

Conducted an Art Auction to support the Little Lighthouse for the Blind,

Cosponsored the Rotary Centennial Coloring Contest at Trinity Elementary School.

Jaguarific Award Sponsor at Seven Springs Middle School.

Supported Rotary International strategic initiatives by helping a young family adopt an international orphan baby.

Spent time with Pace Center for Girls and presented a scholarship.

Supported our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with "Operation Shoebox."

Sponsored a student Interact Club at Genesis Preparatory School.

Sponsor annually 45 turkeys given to families of Seven Springs Elementary School at Thanksgiving.

Sponsor two local high school students to attend S4TL (Students For Tomorrow Leaders) Seminar in Lakeland, Florida each year.

Participated in Rotary Group Study Exchange hosting business professionals from New Zealand and Argentina.

Supporter of Junior Achievement of Pasco County.

Supporter of the Boys and Girls Club.

Provided recognition and scholarships to deserving graduating seniors at local high schools.

Contributed $10,000 to the Youth and Family Alternatives RAP House.

Contributed to the purchase of medical equipment for a hospital in Argentina.

Rotary International has taken on polio eradication as its global cause. The Rotary Club of Trinity is a Contributor in the fight to eradicate polio from the world.

In 1985, the volunteer organization took on polio eradication as its global cause. Since the all-out assault on polio began, reported cases of polio have plummeted from 35,251 worldwide in 1988 to 5,186 in 1997 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have played instrumental roles, Rotary International, with 1. 2 million members worldwide, has raised more than $240 million to buy polio vaccine for poor countries, turned out hundreds of thousands of volunteers to squirt polio vaccine into children's mouths and keep the vision of a polio free world on the public health agenda.

Torn by civil war, leaders tom Rotary helped negotiate temporary truces so children could be immunized Experts say Rotary's crusade against polio is the largest and most successful public health initiative ever undertaken by a volunteer group. In some parts of the world, polio is still the leading cause of childhood disability, leaving children to crawl and beg on city streets. Rotary money has allowed one billion children to be vaccinated

There is still a shortfall of more than $370 million, money that public health officials say is needed to conduct more immunization days in Africa and to establish the surveillance systems and laboratories to ensure that the polio virus has been wiped out everywhere. Rotary's goal and our goal is to eradicate Polio from the world by 2005