Primero Volleyball Team Donates Ten Blankets to Children's Hospital Colorado

On December 19, 2025 the Primero High School varsity girls volleyball team delivered about ten handmade cozy blankets to Children's Hospital Colorado as part of the program's ongoing community outreach. The blankets, created and collected by students over recent weeks, were intended to give comfort to young patients during hospital stays and medical treatments. The project was organized by the team as an extension of its service activities and brought together players, classmates and family members to sew, assemble and package the items.

The donation is modest in scale but meaningful in a rural county where community initiatives often substitute for larger institutional programs. For Las Animas County residents the blankets represent both direct support for children facing health challenges and a demonstration of the social capital built through school activities. Student involvement in creating goods for donation offers hands on learning in teamwork, project management and community service that complements athletic training.

Beyond the immediate comfort for patients the drive has broader community implications. Small donations like these can strengthen partnerships between schools and regional health providers, and they can also influence how extracurricular programs are valued by school boards and local funders. In districts with tight budgets for activities outside academics, visible examples of community impact can help justify continued support for team travel, supplies and service programs. The Primero outreach underscores the nonmarket value produced by youth programs, including increased civic engagement and social cohesion that are harder to quantify but important for rural community resilience.

Coaches and students involved described the project as part of the team ethos of service and mutual support, and the donation was positioned as both a charitable act and a team building exercise. For local families the gesture offers reassurance that community institutions are attentive to vulnerable children and that students are learning civic responsibility. As schools plan budgets and programming for the year ahead, initiatives like the Primero blanket drive serve as a reminder that small local efforts can have measurable emotional and social effects well beyond their material cost.