The Fiți Buni Association
Mărțișorul speranței
Every year · since 2015
“The mărțișor of hope”: the 1 March charity fair at Caracal Municipal Hospital. Year after year, the money raised on mărțișoare has bought equipment, furniture and antibacterial linoleum for the hospital’s wards.
These are the years from 2020 on — since the campaigns have also been run through the Fiți Buni Association, whose president is Nicoleta Iagăru — and the years in which her name appears in the campaign’s sources. The association calls her husband, Father Ion Iagăru, the initiator of its projects; the campaign’s whole history, from the first edition, with its photographs and press, is on his site.
The campaign’s whole history, on ion.iagaru.ro (opens in a new tab)The campaign’s years
4 years
2024
Mărțișor tickets at 10 lei, as winning lottery tickets: each brought a coffee, a slice of pizza or a pastry from three Caracal businesses, between 1 and 8 March. The money, raised with the Fiți Buni Association, went on televisions for the hospital’s wards.
Result10 televisions for 10 wards of Caracal Municipal Hospital.
2022The 8th edition
From 20 February to 8 March: handmade mărțișoare and decorative objects — photo frames, paintings, candle holders, scented candles, soaps, flower arrangements — sold at the church and through the volunteers of the Fiți Buni Association. The money was for hearing aids for deaf children.
2020The 6th edition
In February, 600 mărțișoare made by children, parents and grandparents around Vidin — Vidin, Kutovo, Kapitanovtsi, Major Uzunovo, Dunavtsi and Vrav — were sold in Caracal, and the money went back to Vidin, through the Romanian Cultural Centre in Vidin.
Result2,500 leva: 12 inhalers and two contactless thermometers for the children’s ward of the Sveta Petka hospital in Vidin.
2019The 5th edition
From 24 February to 1 March: 100 small jars of papaya jam with 24-carat edible gold leaf, at 100 lei each, made by Nicoleta Iagăru, the priest’s wife.
ResultAbout 10,000 lei; about 250 square metres of antibacterial linoleum in Neonatology (four wards, two consulting rooms and a hallway) and in the Bacteriology and Parasitology unit (three rooms and a hallway).
In the press
2 pieces that name her
Sources: evenimentdeolt.ro (1, 2, 3, 4), realitateaoltului.ro (1, 2), agerpres.ro, gazetaoltului.ro (1, 2), gazetapublica.ro (1, 2), danubebridge2.com, bta.bg, old-news.bnr.bg.
How you can help
Join the Fiți Buni Association and give any amount to its accounts at Banca Transilvania.
A transfer
Any amount, to the association’s accounts at Banca Transilvania, in RON, EUR and GBP.
3.5% of your tax
If you pay income tax in Romania, 3.5% of it can go to the association at no extra cost to you.