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
through the lens
September 2010 Summer has fast come to an end. This month I will share glimpses of my days not with words but through a camera lens. There were lots of hellos and goodbyes this summer and I continue to grapple with the call to be here and call this new place home. For their protection…
a camping we will go
I’m just back in Moldova from my trip across the Atlantic. First and foremost I want to give a shout out to all my friends at Byfield Parish. I am so sorry that I did not get to see you this summer! I was planning to visit on the first Sunday in July, but that…
August 2010
Dear Friends and Family, I write this letter as I am traveling to Omaha, Nebraska for our US Staff Gathering (July 12-22) where we will be spending intentional time together discussing and dreaming and sharing about our respective lives and work with WMF. I look forward to updating you all about this time next month!…