People who believe in miracles

The story of minuni.ro, a platform bringing together people and their stories about how to make the world a better place.

Ana-Maria Cononovici, 29.11.2015, 12:04

Have you ever
wondered what it’s like to celebrate the birthday of a puppy, or someone born
in winter in the middle of the summer? If that sounds strange to you and your
answer is no, then you must listen to the story we’re about to tell. It’s the
story of some unusual parties, which in time became charity events. It’s the story
of an online platform called minuni.ro, miracles.ro in English. With details on
all that, here is Veronica Soare, or the miracle fairy queen, as she likes to
call herself:

Minuni.ro came into
my life quite naturally, I think all the roads I’ve taken have brought me to
this point. I just realised I had to do this one afternoon as I was preparing
some éclairs for a charity fair. Mixing the cream it dawned on me I wasn’t
doing what I really wanted to do. I didn’t really know what exactly that was,
but that was when the idea behind minuni.ro started to take shape. Minuni.ro is
an online platform that seeks to promote good people and the good deeds they
do, while on the other hand it is my playground, my way of bringing together
fine people who want to make donations for a certain cause, people who want to
feel they really make a difference in the world.

Right from the
start, minuni.ro set out to come up with something totally new, so much so that
for almost a year now, it didn’t fall short of extending unusual invitations, Veronica Sare told us:

I love the idea of
coming up with something different. The first minuni.ro event was a party for
my puppy, Lola, a puppy dog I found on the street. I found her on November 25,
2013 and last year, on November 25, I threw a party, Lola and friends, a
charity party. Who would have thought someone might throw a party for a dog!
There were 65 people who made donations, so I could raise funds for a foster
care home. It was before the winter holiday, and the timing was perfect. Then I
threw a party for my birthday, it was a day when I called my friends asking
them not to bring any presents, but to donate the money they would have spent
for me instead. And then I raised funds for Magic Camp, a camp for the children
diagnosed with cancer. We held the most recent and big minuni.ro event nearly a
month ago, when we had an imaginary anniversary, that’s how we called it,
Veronica’s imaginary anniversary, since my birthday is in January and all my
life I have wanted to celebrate my birthday under clear skies, with warm,
beautiful weather. I invented an anniversary where I raised funds for a project
called ‘Teach for Romania’ and it was very entertaining, people came and played
games. We got together, split into teams and we turned the Old City Center into
an educational playground. People had to go in the street and tell other people
about minuni.ro briefing them on what we do, and also had to raise funds. And
that’s how we somehow succeeded in taking them out of their comfort area and,
although I knew they were doing a wonderful thing, something they would get
them really excited, they actually exceeded my expectations, because when the
imaginary anniversary ended, they asked when the next one would be.

Joining Veronica is
the Faceboook community. And although there are many people who believe online
relationships are not something real, Veronica worked wonders and surrounded
herself with good people, people who are always ready to try out something new.
For instance there is an entire community that manufactures kaleidoscopes,
since Veronica has always loved kaleidoscopes. With details on that, here is
Veronica Soare again:

I have a lot of
fine people around me. About three years ago, I started being very active and sort
of wearing my heart on my sleeve: I posted events from my personal life, I was
very honest. And in time, this community kind of grew. I like to turn every
episode into a story. I make kaleidoscopes, I stage workshops for
kaleidoscopes, we get people together, and for each kaleidoscope they make, a
child in a placement centre will manufacture a kaleidoscope with me, so that
children in placement centres may also get acquainted with the magic of mirrors
and beads. Our last kaleidoscope workshop was fully booked, because people want
to be there and cannot wait for the next event. I think all of this happens
because I am very transparent, very honest and there are many people who can
related to the way I am.

Parties at minuni.ro
have been coming up with a different vibration. And if we managed to stir your
curiosity, in the shortest time possible you can join in for the next meeting,
staged to celebrate a year of miracles. We don’t know all the details, so you
may be in for a surprise. But we will keep an eye on minuni.ro and keep you
posted on the good deeds they’ve been doing.