| The mission of
Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA) is “to enable people to
cope with, and reduce the hardships of poverty; create sustainable
self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination
of poverty.
SEVCA gives people the knowledge, tools, and support
to break the cycle of dependence, and works to find solutions to the
deep-seated problems of poverty, largely by empowering and collaborating
with those whose lives are affected by it daily.
SEVCA was created in
1965 as a part of the nationwide ‘War on Poverty’ and chartered as a
Community Action Agency (CAA) – a private non-profit corporation,
locally initiated and governed, and designated by local, state and
federal officials as the ‘anti-poverty agency’ serving Windham and
Windsor Counties.
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| President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the Economic
Opportunity Act in August 1964, thereby
initiating the War on Poverty and enabling the creation
of Community Action Agencies such as SEVCA. |
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