Ongoing
Homes for families in need
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.
The story of the campaign
Cases reach Father Ion in many ways: “Sometimes they find us, sometimes we find them.”
For the house rebuilt in eight days in 2018, he himself called the project “our version of ‘Visuri la cheie’” (Dreams turnkey).
As he wrote to the people of Caracal in 2020, asking for help with a new house: “I cannot do what you can do, you cannot do what I can do, but together we will do wonderful things!”
Sources: euro24info.com, realitateaoltului.ro, adevarul.ro, activenews.ro, basilica.ro, adevarul.ro, ziarullumina.ro, episcopiaslatinei.ro, ziarullumina.ro, ziarullumina.ro, ziarullumina.ro.
The editions
3 editions
2026
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.
2021
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.
ResultA house bought for a family of five, in Sprâncenata.
2020
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.
These are the association’s years, from 2020. The campaign’s whole history, from its first edition, with its photographs and press, is on the site of Father Ion Iagăru, whom the association calls the initiator of its projects.
The campaign’s whole history, on ion.iagaru.ro (opens in a new tab)Photographs
10 photographs
In the press
7 articles and reports
- Misiune de Crăciun: renovarea casei în care o elevă din Pârșcoveni își crește cei cinci frați (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - Minunea părintelui Iagăru s-a înfăptuit: familia din Sprâncenata are casă nouă (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - O nouă misiune a părintelui Iagăru: CASĂ nouă până la Paște pentru 5 suflete din Sprâncenata (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - Campanie socială: Casă nouă pentru o familie nevoiașă din Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Eveniment de Olt
in Romanian
How you can help
Give any amount to the Fiți Buni Association’s accounts at Banca Transilvania.
Bank transfer
Accounts in RON, EUR and GBP, at Banca Transilvania.3.5% of your income tax
You can direct 3.5% of your income tax to the association with Form 230.