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.
Learn about our staff & support financially.
Read the latest news and notes from the field.
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
Advent Day 6 by John Koon
Take the positive emotions to prayer. Such was the advice of my spiritual director yesterday as I described my feelings to her about getting married in just over six weeks. I feel desired and accepted, I said. Normally the negative emotions are the ones I take to prayer. The stress, the fear, the…
August
Dear Friends and Family, Thank you so much for your prayers for our team and the prayers for the children. If you remember, the kids that we worked with during the school year in the boarding school/orphanage either go home or go to a summer camp for the entire summer. The boarding school/orphanage that we…
December
December 2010 Dearest Family and Friends: Merry Christmas. Jesus says to come to him when we are weary and burdened. That he is gentle and humble in heart. He asks us to come to him and take up his yoke that is easy and light and gives us rest. (Check out Luke 11:28-30). God gives…