The Fiți Buni Association
Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
Every year · since 2014
“Smile! (Our) family loves you!”: Christmas gifts for children in hospital, for children from families in need and for the children of the Romanians around Vidin. The campaign sets out every year from the hospital church in Caracal and reached its tenth edition in 2023.
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
2025“Fii alături de copiii internați în spitale, în perioada Sărbătorilor de Iarnă!” (Be with the children in hospital over the winter holidays!)
Father Ion and the Fiți Buni Association prepared gifts for the children in the paediatric wards of six hospitals in three counties: Caracal, Balș and Corabia (Olt), Roșiorii de Vede (Teleorman), Băilești and Calafat (Dolj). The personalised bags were picked up at the wooden church in the hospital courtyard, and the gifts were also to reach hundreds of children from poor families and from the villages of the Vlachs of the Bulgarian Timok.
2023The 10th edition
At the end of November, Father Ion and the Fiți Buni Association began the collection, and the gifts were to be handed out around Christmas. On the second day of Christmas the trip to the Romanians of Bulgaria was planned: to the Romanian Cultural Centre in Vidin, to a kindergarten in the Romanian quarter and to several villages around Vidin.
2021The 8th edition
From 28 November to 20 December. The gifts were packed into boxes by the association’s members, following the health rules; donations could also be made to the Fiți Buni Association’s account.
2020The 7th edition
It began at the end of November. Because of the pandemic, to protect the children and their families, the boxes were assembled and filled with gifts by the members of the Fiți Buni Association. The collection deadline: 20 December 2020.
In the press
1 piece that names her
Sources: evenimentdeolt.ro, gazetaoltului.ro (1, 2), gazetapublica.ro.
How you can help
Join the Fiți Buni Association and give any amount to its accounts at Banca Transilvania.
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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.