Janette Porter

Janette has been the chair of trustees since March 2023. She was a trustees for nine years prior to this and before that an advisor to the board of trustees.

Janette has been actively supporting Sreepur Village for over 30 years with her mother Ruby Porter MBE, a former trustee and now long-standing supporter.

Janette is a mother of five adult children and lives in Liverpool UK. Janette is a lecturer in Education and Early Childhood Studies at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of her Universities and Ethics Research Council. Her research is about healthy relationships, domestic abuse in teenage intimate partner relationships and gender-based violence. See link for more information.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00079/full

She is co-founder and facilitator of Sudley Sings, a choir for young adults with learning disabilities in Liverpool UK.

Janette was last working with the mothers, children and staff on site in Sreepur Village Bangladesh in June 2023. Janette is the governance and safeguard lead for the project.

I am so proud to be a chair of trustees of Sreepur Village and to be part of a team of people who support women and children in Bangladesh.

Having worked on site on four occasions I see firsthand the impact our outstanding work with the mothers and children. I will continue to work with Sreepur Village to enable the mothers at Sreepur to become self-sustaining. This they can do by leaning trades and skills to equip themselves for employment once they leave Sreepur Village.

Empowering mothers leads to empowered children, our core work is about enabling, educating, training and supporting mothers and their children this we do with sincere integrity.