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
Current Happenings
We are now into the full swing of our after-school program here with the kids, and we’d like to share some more about us: We are now 12 workers from Moldova, Romania, the United States and Ukraine. We work with around 60 children weekly. We provide game time outside and inside in our two game…
November 2012
“They are Jesus. Everyone is Jesus in a distressing disguise.” Mother Teresa Dear friends and family, I (John) have found myself several times this month feeling disappointed by the lack of evident growth or transformation in the children who come to our program. The 6th grade boy whom I tutor twice a week still can’t…
October 2012
Dear friends and family, I (Rachel) write you in mid September during our first week at school with the kids. We worked diligently this summer to have everything prepared and ready for the children. And it is, but chaos still ensues. All our steady planning, high hopes and feeling so sure of ourselves met reality…