Ongoing
For Caracal Municipal Hospital
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.

The story of the campaign
“As a hospital priest, I stand with the medical system!” Father Ion wrote in 2021.
Month after month, the Fiți Buni Association brings nappies and wet wipes for newborns whose mothers have little means, in five hospitals in three counties. People can give size 1 nappies (2–6 kg) or any sum to the association’s account.
Much of the equipment has also come from the 1 March fair, “Mărțișorul speranței”.
The editions
10 editions
2026
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.
Result8 libraries.
2025
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.
ResultMore than 23,000 and more than 16,000 medical masks.
2024
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.
Result40 televisions and 40 wall mounts, donated from the start of the year to September.
2022
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.
2021
In December, a professional vegetable-cutting machine for the hospital kitchen.
2020
In August, nappies for the newborns in Neonatology whose mothers have little means; the company AGRISO joined in.
Result500 nappies.
2019
In December, almost 140 pupils from Caracal’s schools, with their teachers, decorated a Christmas tree made of suction cups in the hospital’s central hall, to bring joy to the children in hospital.
2018
From March, nappies bought by the church, with Brâncoveni Monastery as partner, to cover the maternity ward’s needs until the end of the year; on 10 October, new LCD televisions for the Oncology ward.
Result3,000 nappies; 5 televisions, worth about 2,000 lei.
2016“Fii și tu prietenul copiilor aflați în suferință” (Be a friend to children who suffer too)
All summer, every week, after Vespers, adult and child volunteers brought still and mineral water to the children in Paediatrics and Oncology and to the elderly at the Caracal medical and social care centre, toys for the little ones and blessed icons for the parents.
2015
An air conditioner for the Paediatrics ward, with the help of the abbess of Brâncoveni Monastery.
Photographs
37 photographs
In the press
27 articles and reports
- Solidaritate pentru viață în secția de Neonatologie din Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Publică
in Romanian - Lectura în spital aduce zâmbete pacienților din Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Publică
in Romanian - Părintele Ion Iagăru a donat măști medicale Spitalului Municipal Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Oltului
in Romanian - Părintele Iagăru a donat peste 23.000 de măști medicale Spitalului Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Publică
in Romanian
Show the other 19 articles
- Părintele Ion Iagăru donează 30 de frigidere Spitalului din Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Oltului
in Romanian - Televizoare noi, donate secțiilor Spitalului Municipal Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Jurnalul Olteniei
in Romanian - Preotul Ion Iagăru, 10 televizoare pentru Spitalul Municipal Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Oltului
in Romanian - Părintele Ion Iagăru din Caracal, îngerul nou-născuților (opens in a new tab)
Gazeta Publică
in Romanian - Televizoare pentru secțiile Spitalului Caracal, printr-o nouă campanie a preotului Iagăru (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - Televizoare noi la Spitalul Caracal, cu sprijinul bisericii și al enoriașilor (opens in a new tab)
Jurnalul Olteniei
in Romanian - Inedit. Primul brad din ventuze, în holul central al Spitalului Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Eveniment de Olt
in Romanian - Televizoare LCD pentru secția de Oncologie a Spitalului Municipal Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Episcopia Slatinei și Romanaților
in Romanian - ,,Mărțișorul Speranței” a adus noi dotări la Spitalul Caracal (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - DONAȚIE Nou-născuții la Maternitatea Caracal vor avea GRATUIT pamperși (opens in a new tab)
Realitatea Oltului
in Romanian - Voluntarii caracaleni alături de bolnavii din Spitalul Municipal (opens in a new tab)
Ziarul Lumina
in Romanian - Campania “Fii şi tu prietenul copiilor aflaţi în suferinţă” desfășurată în 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