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
God's miracle
Advent is a time of waiting for and receiving the greatest miracle – the miracle of the Incarnation, God taking on flesh – that moment in time that forever changed the course of history. It’s a time to look back, remember, and praise God in wonder. Looking back over year one in Moldova I see…
november 2010
“Surely all my wandering finds its end in you” (Mike Mason, from “The Lover’s Hermitage,” The Mystery of Marriage, p. 220). Dear Friends and Family, I have felt a bit like a wanderer over the past four and a half years. I finished graduate school in 2006 and moved out of my Nashville apartment into…
October 2010
Dear Friends and Family, Sitting on the steps of the orphanage school building, with Skip-Bo cards and watercolors scattered everyone, I was suddenly reminded of why I am here. At one point there were no less than 50 children painting, jumping rope, playing board games and kicking a soccer ball all within the vicinity of…