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HOW YOUR SECA CONTRIBUTION HELPS

  • $1 a week purchases a gallon of milk for one family at a domestic violence center
  • $1 per week clothes for a homeless youth who has gotten her first job
  • $1 per pay, pays for a hospital blood count for a sick child
  • $1 per a week will plant 500 trees
  • $2 per week provides transportation to over 10 seniors to medical visits, grocery shopping and community activities
  • $2 per week can help 7 low-income seniors find dental care or dentures through a consumer health hotline
  • $5 per week provides housing and one meal and assistance toward a goal of self-sufficiency to 20 homeless individuals
  • $5 per pay can provide safe water to more than 80 poor Mozambicans through the construction of wells, sewers, and other clean water systems.
  • $5 per pay supports wigs for five children undergoing chemotherapy
  • $5 per pay will pay for a patient with a chest X-ray
  • $5 will help feed and clothe homeless people
  • $5 per week can help provide 20 days of housing for a homeless youth
  • $5 a week can provide scholarships for 5 girls in need to attend sports, health and leadership summer camp programs
  • $5 a week can sponsor a child for one year, including health care and educational assistance
  • $5 per week can provide 2,500 disabled citizens monthly updates from the Council of Disability Rights about the rights of people with disabilities, resources to provide services, new and pending legislation, research, etc.
  • $7 per pay, (the price of popcorn and movies) will provide an hour of physical therapy for a patient
  • $10 per pay supplies medication for a dialysis patient for over 1 month
  • $10 per week provides healthcare including physicals and/or vision and dental care for over 40 children
  • $ 10 per pay supports a1 lightweight wheelchair to a person who is physically challenged
  • $10 per pay can provide lifesaving medicines for 300 Iraqi children cut off from health care
  • $10 a week provides an after school program for one girl in an underserved public school
  • $10 per week provides health care including physicals and or vision and dental care or over 40 children
  • $10 per week can provide seedlings for poor rural families in Peru, providing them with food as well as a source of income from the sale of additional crops
  • $10 a week provides training and materials for ten lupus support group facilitators
  • $25 per week can provide emergency medical supplies to aid 5,000 disaster victims for an entire month
  • $25 per pay will provide for a patient to get a CT scan
  • A $50 donation can ensure 500 trees will be planted
  • $50 a week can provide vaccinations for 50 people against meningitis, measles, polio and other deadly epidemics in Indonesia
  • One in four state employees directly receives benefits from at least one of the eleven SECA charities
  • Payroll Deduction is a fast and easy way to ensure your contributions to charities
  • $100 a month provides two days of treatment for 225 people with substance abuse problems