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
snapshots
Dear friends, It's a beautiful autumn day here in Galati, the bright sun warming the chilly morning air. At our Community Center in “the valley” we greet over thirty children each day, but I have the privilege of working with a group of five who aren't children anymore – they're young adults. This month I'd…
November 2008
November 2008 Dear Friends and Family, Recently one of the teenagers who frequents the Valley House here in Galaţi was talking to one of our staff workers, Ana. He was smiling an unusual amount that day, so Ana asked him how he was feeling. He said, "Happy," and then upon being asked why,…
back to school
October 2008 Dear friends, Thank you for praying during our September camp with 30 kids. During the week of camp God showed up in new and remarkable ways. I didn't feel ready to spend seven full days with all these youth and children, but that's where prayer came in and changed everything. If the highlight…