Nicoleta Iagăru
Her years
Her years, from 2018 to 2026, as the site’s records show them: the exhibitions, the association’s campaigns, her paintings and the press that names her.
2026
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- In January, in Vidin: 160 holiday parcels for children of the Vidin region and for the residents of an old people’s home in the Bregovo municipality, given by the association together with the Romanian Cultural Centre in Vidin.
The association’s campaigns
- Vreau și eu la mare!
The 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.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
In May, 8 new libraries, with donated books, in the Municipal Hospital and the Polyclinic in Caracal; nine more were needed to reach every ward. Nappies and wet wipes for Neonatology, in January and in the summer.
Result: 8 libraries.
- Homes for families in need
The Fiți Buni Association answered a mother’s appeal: a new bathroom, so that her little girl, who had beaten leukaemia, could come home before school started. Floor and wall tiles, sanitary fittings, a water heater and an electric radiator were asked for.
- Vidin and the Timok Valley
In January, parcels of sweets, cosmetics and hygiene products for children up to eight in kindergartens and schools in the Vidin region and for the old people of a care home in the Bregovo municipality, given by the association together with the Romanian Cultural Centre in Vidin. The association’s president, Nicoleta Iagăru, and Father Ion were there.
Result: 160 parcels.
- Depistează la timp! Auzul tău merită grijă!
The third edition, in January, at the Osica de Sus II parish; the fourth, in February, at Brastavățu; the eighth, on 16 May, at the Saint Nicholas parish in Pârșcoveni; the tenth, in June, at the Saint Demetrius and Saint Stephen the Archdeacon parish in Cezieni. In September a new group of beneficiaries received their hearing aids at Audionova Craiova.
Result: By September 2026: hundreds of people tested and evaluated; dozens received hearing aids.
Painting
In the press
5 pieces in the press in 2026. A few of them:
- Румънска организация дари 160 празнични пакета във Видинско (opens in a new tab)
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2025
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- In July, the “Pedalăm în siguranță!” camp: four days on bicycles through the Băluța Gorges, for hard-of-hearing children to whom the association had given hearing aids.
Exhibitions
- Painting exhibition — Romanian Cultural Centre, Tsvyat 1870 Community Centre, Vidin (Bulgaria)
The association’s campaigns
- Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
“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.
- Vreau și eu la mare!
The 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.
Result: 26 children who had never seen the sea.
- Desculț am fost și m-ați încălțat!
With the support of the Strong Women’s Club, through the volunteers of the Fiți Buni Association.
Result: New boots for 100 children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
On 4 February Father Ion paid the deposit for 30 refrigerators for the hospital’s wards — “the biggest and most ambitious donation”, in his words — and began raising the rest. Through the Fiți Buni Association’s partnership with the Craiova Food Bank, the hospital received more than 23,000 medical masks in April and more than 16,000 in September.
Result: More than 23,000 and more than 16,000 medical masks.
- Vidin and the Timok Valley
In January, parcels of sweets, toothbrushes and toothpaste, notebooks and pens for the children in the children’s ward of the Vidin hospital, at the Tsvyat community centre and in the villages of Major Uzunovo, Kapitanovtsi and Negovanovtsi.
- Depistează la timp! Auzul tău merită grijă!
The 1st edition
On 22 November 2025, at the Slătioara I parish.
Result: Dozens of people tested.
- Pedalăm în siguranță!
From 20 to 23 July, around Ponoarele (Mehedinți), for children with hearing loss fitted with hearing aids by the association with Audionova; the camp’s announcement spoke of 6 children.
Painting
In the press
2 pieces in the press in 2025.
2024
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- Diploma of excellence for a valuable contribution to promoting the values of the Clubul Femeilor Puternice (Strong Women’s Club) community — the Camelia Tița Academy of Leadership and Personal Development.
The association’s campaigns
- Vreau și eu la mare!
The 9th edition
From 1 to 6 September. Among the children were children with hearing loss; two of them received hearing aids.
- Mărțișorul speranței
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.
Result: 10 televisions for 10 wards of Caracal Municipal Hospital.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
On 11 January, 18 televisions for the Paediatrics, ENT and Pneumology wards; for the first time, the paediatric wards had televisions. The campaign went on with “Mărțișorul speranței”. Nappies for the newborns of five hospitals, among them the Neonatology ward of Băilești Town Hospital.
Result: 40 televisions and 40 wall mounts, donated from the start of the year to September.
Painting
2023
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- In December, the association’s Christmas gifts in Belogradchik (Bulgaria), handed out at a kindergarten and in the town square.
- In AGERPRES’s series “Români cu povești” (Romanians with stories), the Fiți Buni Association is named as led by her, as its president.
- Diploma of excellence for an outstanding contribution to organising the conference “Arta de a trăi frumos și sănătos” (The Art of Living Well and Healthily), Slatina.
Exhibitions
- Scânteie de culori (A spark of colour) — Romanian Cultural Centre, Tsvyat 1870 Community Centre, Vidin (Bulgaria)
The association’s campaigns
- Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
The 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.
- Vreau și eu la mare!
Children from poor families in Romania went to the sea free of charge and, this year, children from Bulgaria, from the Timok Valley, too.
- Desculț am fost și m-ați încălțat!
A special edition
For the first time, boots for the elderly: 80 pairs of warm boots for elderly people and people with disabilities from Caracal and the places nearby, each with a basket of Christmas gifts, in December. The deposit for the 80 pairs was paid in November.
- Vidin and the Timok Valley
In early January, hundreds of parcels of sweets for the children’s ward of the Vidin hospital, kindergartens and community centres. On 24 January, the Day of Romanian Culture, a delegation of the association, led by its president, was in Vidin; Nicoleta Iagăru’s painting exhibition was for charity, for the children of the Vidin region. In the last days of December the association’s representatives handed out Christmas gifts in Belogradchik, at the Iglika kindergarten and in the town square.
- Să îmbrăcăm un copil de Paști!
For Saturday 8 April, Father Ion announced a minibus full of children going shopping.
Painting
In the press
2022
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- Vreau și eu la mare!
The 7th edition
For the first time, children with hearing loss were invited too.
- Mărțișorul speranței
The 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.
- Desculț am fost și m-ați încălțat!
An edition for hard-of-hearing and deaf children: the aim was new boots for about 10% of the hard-of-hearing and deaf children in Romania, more than 150 children. The campaign ran until mid-December, with the support of the Media10 newspaper.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
On 12 September the association’s representatives bought, with Audionova’s financial support, the nappies and wet wipes the Neonatology ward’s newborns needed for September.
- Să îmbrăcăm un copil de Paști!
On 17 April, children from Olt, Gorj and Teleorman chose new clothes for the Resurrection service, and on the same day went to a restaurant for the first time. The aim rose from 20 to 30 children as the donations came in.
Result: 30 children.
Painting
- Vreau și eu la mare!
2021
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- Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
The 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.
- Vreau și eu la mare!
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.
Result: 28 children saw the sea for the first time.
- Desculț am fost și m-ați încălțat!
From 1 to 30 November, for 75 children — 37 girls and 38 boys — with the list of sizes published by Father Ion.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
In December, a professional vegetable-cutting machine for the hospital kitchen.
- Homes for families in need
On 6 April Father Ion set out to move the family from Sprâncenata, whose mud-brick house was about to collapse, into a new home by Easter; two weeks later, through the Fiți Buni Association, the house was bought. In December, the campaign to renovate the house in Pârșcoveni where a schoolgirl is raising her five brothers and sisters had raised 32,730 lei, 54.5% of the sum needed.
Result: A house bought for a family of five, in Sprâncenata.
- Să îmbrăcăm un copil de Paști!
A minibus with 20 children went to the Electroputere Mall in Craiova; the children chose new clothes and shoes, and each was given a ball.
Result: 20 children.
Painting
- Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
2020
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- The Fiți Buni Association is entered in Romania’s national register of NGOs, as number 26954/A/2020, in Caracal.
The association’s campaigns
- Zâmbește! Familia (noastră) te iubește!
The 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.
- Mărțișorul speranței
The 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.
Result: 2,500 leva: 12 inhalers and two contactless thermometers for the children’s ward of the Sveta Petka hospital in Vidin.
- For Caracal Municipal Hospital
In August, nappies for the newborns in Neonatology whose mothers have little means; the company AGRISO joined in.
Result: 500 nappies.
- Homes for families in need
In March, within three days, a well was drilled in the yard of a family in need in Caracal, and Father Ion set out to give them a new house too. At the same time, for a mother and her seriously ill daughter, a donated studio flat, which he was to paint, furnish and fit with appliances.
- Vidin and the Timok Valley
From the money of the “Mărțișorul speranței” fair, 12 inhalers and two contactless thermometers for the children’s ward of the Vidin hospital. In April, during the pandemic, reusable protective masks from Caracal, on Father Ion’s initiative: 250 for Vidin town hall, the rest for organisations and institutions.
- Să îmbrăcăm un copil de Paști!
“Îmbracă un copil de Sărbători” (Dress a child for the holidays)
The campaign carried on during the pandemic, for children from Caracal and the neighbouring communes.
Result: About 40 children received new clothes and sports shoes.
2019
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- The gold-leaf papaya jam for “Mărțișorul speranței”: 100 small jars, about 10,000 lei, antibacterial linoleum in the Neonatology ward.
The association’s campaigns
- Mărțișorul speranței
The 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.
Result: About 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
2018
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- Paints the faces of the children on the paediatric ward of Caracal Municipal Hospital, during the Saturday visits of the hospital church’s parishioners.
In the press