A non-profit organisation · Caracal, Olt County, Romania
Christmas and Easter gifts for children in hospital, the free “Vreau și eu la mare!” seaside camp, new winter boots, free hearing tests, and help for the elderly and for families in need.
In 2025 the association wrote of itself that for more than five years it has brought joy and hope to families from disadvantaged backgrounds and supported children with disabilities, children capable of doing well at school, people with serious illnesses or disabilities, and helpless old people. The purpose entered in the register: raising funds for children with serious illnesses, for people with disabilities and for helpless old people, and organising trips and camps.
Its programmes, as the press has described them: Christmas and Easter gifts for children in hospitals in Olt, Dolj and Teleorman; nappies and wet wipes, month after month, for the newborns of five hospitals; the free camp “Vreau și eu la mare!”; new boots through “Desculț am fost și m-ați încălțat!”; the “Solidari cu copiii surzi” (In solidarity with deaf children) project (2022), hearing aids given together with Audionova and the free hearing-test campaign “Depistează la timp! Auzul tău merită grijă!”; equipment for Caracal Municipal Hospital — televisions, refrigerators, medical masks, libraries; houses bought or renovated for families in need; holiday gifts for children and old people around Vidin, in Bulgaria.
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.
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.
In 2025: 26 children who had never seen the sea.
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.
In 2024: 10 televisions for 10 wards of Caracal Municipal Hospital.
Every year
“I was barefoot and you gave me shoes!”: new winter boots for children who have never had a new pair. Donors choose a child from a list of sizes and give them a new pair.
In 2025: New boots for 100 children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Ongoing
Father Ion’s church stands in the hospital courtyard. Donations have brought equipment, televisions, refrigerators, medical masks, libraries and, month after month, nappies for newborns.
In 2026: 8 libraries.
Ongoing
Houses renovated, rebuilt or bought for families living in homes about to collapse. The church or the association buys the materials, volunteers do the work, and the appeals go out on Facebook.
In 2021: A house bought for a family of five, in Sprâncenata.
Every year
The Easter and Christmas gifts taken to children and old people around Vidin, in Bulgaria, and to the Romanians of the Timok Valley, together with the Romanian Cultural Centre in Vidin.
In 2026: 160 parcels.
“Our members and volunteers are not all beautiful, but they have set out to make other people’s lives beautiful! Our members and volunteers are not all young, but they want to help as many children as they can! Our members and volunteers are not all healthy, but they have decided to take part in healing the sick! Our members and volunteers are not all rich, but they mean to grow rich in good deeds!”
102 pieces in the press, from 2020 to 2026.
PTV Oltenia
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Gazeta Publică
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The association’s president is Nicoleta Iagăru. Father Ion Iagăru and his wife do this work together: the association calls Father Ion the initiator of its projects and an honorary member, and both of them were at the “Pedalăm în siguranță!” camp in 2025 and with the gifts taken to Vidin in 2023 and in 2026.
Nicoleta Iagăru, the president · Fr. Ion Doru Iagăru, the initiator
Give any amount to the association’s accounts at Banca Transilvania — or, if you pay income tax in Romania, redirect 3.5% of it.
