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!”
The editions
6 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.
2018“Our version of ‘Visuri la cheie’”
The house of three children left without a father, in a village near Caracal, was rebuilt between 1 and 8 August: the church bought the materials, starting with a new roof, and volunteers from the whole area did the work.
ResultA house rebuilt in eight days.
2016
In October Father Ion renovated the house of a poor family with 11 children in the commune of Osica; also in 2016, two houses in the commune of Vlădila were renovated with the help of volunteers and fitted with furniture, appliances and bookcases.
2012
At Father Ion’s appeal, the offering of each believer at the service rebuilt the house of a faithful family.
Photographs
11 photographs
In the press
18 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
Show the other 10 articles
- Acțiuni sociale de amploare desfășurate în anul 2016 de Parohia “Sf. Cosma și Damian” din cadrul Spitalului Municipal Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Episcopia Slatinei și Romanaților
in Romanian
How you can help
Join the Fiți Buni Association and give any amount to its 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.Questions