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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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.
Moldova Blog
August 2004
“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” Amos 5:25 Dear friends, Each day seems to bring another small confirmation that, yes, I am in the right place. Since coming back to Galati on July 9, I keep running into more friends or children who greet…
July 2004
“Do not exploit the poor because they are poor… For the Lord will take up their case And will plunder those who plunder them.“ Proverbs 22:22-23 Dear friends, This month I write to you from my parents' home in New Hampshire, surrounded by the serene beauty of the White Mountains.…
June 2004
Dear friends, Thanks for your patience in not hearing from me in two months. It has truly been a busy spring for me. I still have no computer of my own, but my Dad was able to take my computer back to the States with him and get it repaired so…