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
May 2003
“So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height,for the people worked with all their heart.”Nehemiah 4:6 Dear friends, Happy spring! As you may have guessed, I have been eager for spring to arrive. In my letter that I wrote in February I quoted a Scripture passage…
He now showed them the full extent of his love
Dear friends, I write to you about Easter and about the humility of Jesus at a time when I have been struggling so much to humbly love and serve those nearest to me. Living in community is difficult when we hurt each other and want to run away or just ignore…
Spring Will Come!
“See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come.”Song of Songs 2:11-12 Dear ones, Hard to believe how fast the weeks are flying by. Before long, the winter will be past and spring will come. I can't wait! Coming…