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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.

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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.

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Moldova Blog

November 2009

By WMF Moldova | October 15, 2009

“I hated the statues, the crucifix, all the emphasis on the human body. I was trying to escape from the human body and all it needed. I thought I could believe in some kind of a God that bore no relation to ourselves, something vague, amorphous, cosmic…” (Sarah Miles in Graham Greene’s novel The End…

October 2009

By WMF Moldova | September 15, 2009

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love” (John 15:9). Dear Friends and Family, We are back from a wonderful week of camp in the mountains where we were able to take almost all of the kids who come to our Day Center. We had perfect weather…

September 2009

By WMF Moldova | August 15, 2009

Dear Friends and Family, R. has been coming to our day center for about six months and is one of the children with whom I have had the privilege of spending a lot of time recently. He will be a third grader this fall and is full of wonder and curiosity as he experiences each…

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