WMF Moldova, locally known as LA VIA Community Center, creates a space of healing, integrity and action where children discover hope for a bright future.
Located between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova is one of the smallest of the former Soviet Union’s republics. Despite its picturesque landscapes and a rich cultural heritage, Moldova is a country whose people are seeking to understand who they are and where they stand in the world after being tossed unrelentingly among the hands of multiple powers in recent history until gaining independence in 1991. LA VIA Community Center focuses its relief efforts toward providing a safe space with holistic programming for vulnerable children and families. This includes educational programming, spiritual formation, and more recent relief response for Ukrainian refugees.
Mission Statement
WMF Moldova builds community among the vulnerable and the marginalized: children and their families. We create a space of respect and hope offering equal chances of holistic healing through practical activities that contribute to their rehabilitation and integration into society.
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Read the latest news and notes from the field.
About our Programming
WMF Moldova is a nongovernmental organization that builds community among the vulnerable children and their families. This Community Center creates a space of respect and hope, offering equal chances of holistic healing and recovery through practical activities such as art, music, moral-spiritual education, homework help and counseling that all contribute to the children’s and families’ rehabilitation and integration into society.
Since March 2010, we have been carrying out our activity in partnership with a school in Chisinau through a special program of extracurricular activities for approximately 60 socially-vulnerable children. These educational programming includes literacy education, art, music and play therapy, activities that promote the socialization of the children (life skills, moral-spiritual education, outings in the city, positive discipline, nature discovery), development and encouragement of creativity, supplementary homework help and individual assistance for children who have difficulty reading and writing.
Moldova Blog
June 2013
Dear Friends and Family, We hope this letter finds you well. I (Rachel) am writing this from our new apartment that we moved into a week ago. We quickly settled into this space and are really enjoying a bit of extra room and more natural light. Simon the cat is also pretty happy that our…
May 2013
Dear Friends and Family, Here are some notes on our activity from the past month: A team of seven people from Columbus, Indiana spent a week with us in March in Moldova with the goal of learning about our work, getting to know the kids who come to our program and helping out by organizing…
April 2013
Dear Friends and Family, In Moldova there are two holidays celebrated at the beginning of March: the first day of spring (March 1) and International Women’s Day (March 8). In honor of these days, we spent the last day of February at a local high school selling spring-themed greeting cards made by the adolescents in…