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
June 2009
“Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you” (Ephesians 5:14, TNIV). Dear Friends and Family, I spent a week this month in the small mountain village of Lepşa on our regional staff retreat with Word Made Flesh folks from Sierra Leone, Moldova and Romania. Surrounded by mountain valleys and the…
May 2009
May 2009 Dear Friends and Family, I write this letter at the close of my first twelve months as Word Made Flesh staff in Romania. Thank you for allowing me to be here; I have learned and grown much as I have entered more deeply into relationship with the children who come daily to our…
April 2009
Dear Friends and Family, I had the chance this past month to spend ten days in Kathmandu, Nepal at the Word Made Flesh International Field Forum. It was a multicultural gathering of staff members from five continents committed to talking about the theology and praxis of international partnership. We were discussing, in essence, how we…