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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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
March 2013
“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” – Pablo Picasso Dear Friends and Family, T., one of the 6th grade boys who comes to my (John’s) group at the after-school program, is especially fond of origami. We spend Thursday afternoons, while my other boys are working in…
February 2013
Dear Friends and Family, We hope the New Year greeted you well as you said your goodbyes to 2012. We are grateful for this past year and all that it has brought us: joy, wisdom, new beginnings and exciting developments in our program with the children. We look ahead to 2013 for more of these…
January 2013
Dear Friends and Family, We celebrated the dignity of a group of adolescents who come to our after-school program today (December 10). With boxes full of the 309 hand-made Christmas cards that these kids made this semester, we all took a trolleybus to a private school in downtown Chisinau this morning. We set up two…