A moving obituary for our co-founder, Trisha Silvester MBE, has been published in the Guardian, written by her son Mat Silvester, a trustee of Sreepur Village. It offers a fuller picture of Trisha's remarkable life, well worth reading in full.
SwimSafe is off and running for 2026, teaching children at Sreepur Village essential swimming, rescue and water safety skills. Around 9,600 people die from drowning in Bangladesh every year, making this life saving programme more important than ever.
Featured in the Handmade to Market 2025 Impact Report: a grant that repaired workshop equipment, protecting mothers' livelihoods through their craft work.
While much of Kurigram floods every monsoon, children at Sreepur Village play safely in the rain. One mother shares what safety from the floods means to her.
As the monsoon rains pour down, most children hurry indoors to stay warm and dry. But for the children of the SUCCESS Project, the rain is simply another challenge they must overcome in pursuit of their dreams. With school bags held close and hopeful hearts, they walk through the rain...
Last Christmas, your support helped us raise £25,334 through the Big Give Christmas Challenge, comfortably ahead of our target. That generosity is now hard at work, and six months on we want to share what it has made possible. The campaign focused on one of the most important moments in...
We are delighted to share some wonderful news with you. Janette Porter has been reappointed as Chair of Trustees of Sreepur Village for a further three years. Janette first became involved with Sreepur Village in 1990, through her mother Ruby Porter MBE, a former trustee and long-standing supporter. She has...
Jorina came to Sreepur Village from Joypurhat two and a half years ago, bringing her two young children - a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. Like so many of our mothers, she arrived after experiencing abuse and abandonment. What she found at Sreepur Village was not just safety, but...
When we launched our Spring Livelihood Appeal in March, we set ourselves a goal of £5,000. You hit it in just two weeks. So we raised the bar. A new target of £10,000 - and you cleared that too. By the time the appeal closed, our supporters had raised a...
It is with great sadness that Sreepur Village shares the news that Trisha Silvester MBE, inspiration and co-founder of Sreepur Village as well as its first Chair of Trustees, passed away last week. Trisha's remarkable story began in 1977, when she first travelled to an orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh with...
In March, our Chair of Trustees Janette Porter presented at Mountain Warehouse's London head office strategy day - sharing the story of Sreepur Village and what their long-standing corporate partnership makes possible for our mothers and their children in Bangladesh.
Julekha arrived at Sreepur Village in 2021 from Sunamganj, with three children and very little else. Her husband was unable to work due to ill health, and with no income and no safety net, she had run out of options. Those first weeks were hard. She lay awake worrying about...
