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
Becoming
January 2011 The kingdom of this world Is become The kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ Today I cried at this phrase in Handel’s Messiah. These words, powerfully sung, strike me this year. Instead of uniformly robed choirs, images of the whitewashed concrete dorms dusted with snow come to mind. I think of…
a look inside
Happy New Year to all! This month marks my one year anniversary of arrival in Moldova. Here’s a visual of the school dormitories where the children sleep, the door we enter every day and one of our education rooms on the second floor (can you see the paper snowflakes in the window?) Another of our…
january 2011
Dear Friends and Family, Our staff in Moldova are working hard as we anticipate the celebration of Christmas with our children at the boarding school. One special event for us this month was a time in which a group from a private high school in Chisinau came to our after-school group and shared in singing,…