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
a new turn in the road
Dear friends, As this New Year begins I am more aware than ever of just how important a role you share in what God has called me to. Some big transitions are ahead for me this year as two major decisions have been made in the last couple months. First, that I will have a…
January 2009
Dear Friends and Family, R. is one of the three young children I work with at the Valley House. Together we read books, do art, practice math problems, write stories and listen to music. A 9-year-old third grader, he is all smiles each day when he climbs the stairs to the upstairs where we…
Hope. This is the baby Jesus.
"The days get darker and darker, and then Jesus is born."Wendell Berry It truly is hard to see darkness fall over the city earlier and earlier each day, urging us into hibernation. But it's also during this darkest time of the year that the brightest Light shines. I had the privilege of joining my group…