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
Thanksgiving
by Adriana Ciobanu During this last month of the year I feel challenged, of course, to look back at the year that has passed, the moments of joy and encouragement, but also those of sadness and despair. I pause especially with Luke’s Gospel, which speaks an exceptional testimony about Jesus – the man who was…
Knowledge Day
The first of September is said to be “Knowledge Day” in this part of Europe. The question that nags at me is this: What if the children who have just begun first grade know more than me about life? What more, then, can I teach them? Where did I get this crazy idea? Maybe from…
June 2014
“Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem…” (Isaiah 52.9a, NIV). Dear Friends and Family, This morning I read this article about a community of people living in the sewer system beneath the streets of Bucharest, Romania. Born during the Communist period, many of them were institutionalized as children and then began living…