Mărțișorul speranței

2024

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.

Result10 televisions for 10 wards of Caracal Municipal Hospital.

2022The 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.

2020The 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.

Result2,500 leva: 12 inhalers and two contactless thermometers for the children’s ward of the Sveta Petka hospital in Vidin.

2019The 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.

ResultAbout 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).

2018The 4th edition

From 23 February to 8 March: 2,500 scratch-card mărțișor tickets at 5 lei each, 50 of them winners; the prize was a trip, on 14 April, to six monasteries of the Diocese of Slatina and Romanați.

ResultMore than 10,000 lei; antibacterial linoleum in the treatment rooms of Paediatrics and ENT, and in the diet kitchen and the newborn wards of Neonatology.

2017The 3rd edition

From 20 February to 1 March, in the hospital’s central hall: thousands of mărțișoare made and sold by the pupils of Middle School No. 2 and of the Ioniță Asan National College in Caracal.

ResultAlmost 9,000 lei; on 28 April 2017, a vital-signs monitor and medical furniture for Neonatology.

2016The 2nd edition

Mărțișoare made and sold by the pupils of Caracal’s schools.

ResultAbout 4,000 lei; antibacterial linoleum in the diet kitchen of the Paediatrics ward and in ward room 26.

2015The 1st edition

Volunteers — high-school pupils, children and parents — made Christian-themed mărțișoare in the hospital’s small church.

ResultMedical equipment for the Paediatrics ward.