Supporting La Via in Moldova

International Services has supported a part-time medical assistants for an orphanage in Chisinau, Moldova for two years.  Rita and Harvey Hook's daughter, Rachel, and her husband, John Koon, are missionaries at this La Via orphanage.  Formerly in the Soviet block, Moldova is a very poor country where many parents abandon their children to seek work in another country.

For this year, we have supplied funds to hire a new assistant, Donica.

Donica will work with 60 children who come from socially-vulnerable families or who have been orphaned.  These children are taught basic hygiene like bathing and proper dental care.  They also are checked regularly for lice and other medical issues which then need to be addressed by a medical doctor, dentist or ophthalmologist.  In after school programs, the children learn how to wash themselves and their clothing and to maintain good personal hygiene and clean living environments.