About the charity
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 The Sreepur Village, Bangladesh (Shishu Polli Plus) is a small non-religious, non-political organisation which funds and runs the Sreepur Women & Children's Village situated in rural Bangladesh. The Village presently houses 580 babies and children and over 100 destitute women. We provide a loving environment, food, clothing, education, and vocational training so that they can look forward to an independent adult life. We also provide the much under-rated feeling of being safe. The destitute women are put into groups of six, and are taught hygiene, literacy, numeracy and skills to enable them to support their families in the community.
We also run an outreach programme into the local community. Local women attend vocational training so that they can contribute financially to the family giving them improved financial security and enhanced status within the family unit.
We have built up a local management team in Bangladesh, and have just one paid worker in the UK so that costs are kept to a minimum and every penny possible is sent abroad to care for the women and children and develop our vocational training programmes.
The complex of buildings in which the project is based is in a rural area called Sreepur, 40 miles north of the capital city of Dhaka. The Village has about fifteen large bungalow-style buildings, its own well with pure water, a school, a mosque, and about 10 acres of agricultural land. It was built as the result of a campaign started by BA stewardess Pat Kerr. Pat is still centrally involved in the management of the Village, and spends many months each year at Sreepur.
Please take a few minutes to explore the Village.We are fortunate to have the support of Ian Spratt – a professional photographer – who donated his time and skill to produce a wonderful range of photographs of the Sreepur Village and surrounding areas.You can click on any building and see some of the every day actities.You can also click here to read about Ian’s involvement with us.
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