About SEVCA

SEVCA Opens the Door:

Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA) provides programs and opportunities for individuals and families in Windham and Windsor counties to obtain a sustainable life and to develop human resources.  SEVCA covers an area from White River Junction to Brattleboro, including towns in Windsor and Windham counties.  The home offices are located in Westminster, Vermont at the intersection of Route 5 and the entrance ramp to Exit 5, I-91.  Look for us in the big brick and blue building to the left as you enter Buck Drive.

SEVCA envisions a society in which all people participate in, contribute to and are valued by their communities, thereby increasing the health and vitality of both those communities and individuals.

Inspired by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC, SEVCA commissioned Mural Painter, Kim Ray of Londonderry, Vermont to create a version of the "1930 Breadline Mural" at the SEVCA building in Westminster, Vermont.

The mural is dedicated to all those who share their abundance with great sensitivity and compassion.  Every individual has an abundance to share.  Not only a material abundance, but more importantly to share the abundance of "self"; to enrich the lives of others for the benefit of humanity. 

SEVCA's "1930 Breadline Mural"

"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.  It is not in despair that I paint you that picture.  I paint it for you in hope - because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposed to paint it out.  We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern:  and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous."

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

From the "1930 Breadline Mural" in Room Two of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC.  The mural is an interpretation of a 1930’s Breadline.  FDR instilled courage, optimism, confidence and strength to regular people facing difficult times through relief action organizations.  “…more than material gains will be the spiritual and moral value of such work.”

“ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” 
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1937