The Fiți Buni Association
Vreau și eu la mare!
Every year
“I want to see the sea too!”: the free seaside camp for children from families without means who have never been to a camp or to the sea. In 2026 it reached its eleventh edition.
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
6 years
2026The 11th edition
Six days and five nights for children from Olt and Dolj, with a hotel, meals at a restaurant, transport on the association’s coach, a private beach and a pool. Each child gets a welcome pack: a personalised T-shirt, a backpack, a folding beach mat and a water flask.
2025The 10th edition
From 31 August to 4 September, in Eforie Nord, at the Mondial and Cristal hotels: Aqua Park Eforie Nord, Imaginaria Space, the Espinol Circus and a stop at Saint Mary’s Monastery in Techirghiol. Part of the lodging was covered by the Pepcolandia 2025 programme of Pepco Romania and the pastel Association.
Result26 children who had never seen the sea.
2024The 9th edition
From 1 to 6 September. Among the children were children with hearing loss; two of them received hearing aids.
2023
Children from poor families in Romania went to the sea free of charge and, this year, children from Bulgaria, from the Timok Valley, too.
2022The 7th edition
For the first time, children with hearing loss were invited too.
2021
Children from Pârșcoveni, Vlădila, Drăghiceni, Reșca, Deveselu and Caracal left for the coast by coach in September; generous believers gave them the camp free of charge, through the parish of the church of Caracal Municipal Hospital.
Result28 children saw the sea for the first time.
Photographs
1 photograph
The camp’s poster, with the Fiți Buni Association’s mark — posted by her in January 2024
In the press
1 piece that names her
Sources: evenimentdeolt.ro, ptvoltenia.ro, mediazece.ro, realitateaoltului.ro (1, 2, 3).
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.