NGO website development: Wreetu's design and build
NGO website development for Wreetu, a Bangladeshi foundation for menstrual health and SRHR: 29 pages designed and built, with a donation, volunteer and partner path.
Relevant if you run a foundation, nonprofit or campaign and need donors and partners to act.
- Client
- Wreetu Health & Well-being Foundation
- Role
- UI/UX designer and full-stack developer
- When
- 2026
- Work
- Astro, PHP
What did Wreetu need?
Wreetu Health & Well-being Foundation works on menstrual health and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bangladesh. Its site had to do three jobs: explain eleven years of work to funders and partners, show programs and products clearly, and make it easy for a visitor to donate, volunteer, partner or order a product.
What did I do?
I designed the site and built it.
- Design: layouts for the home page, programs, products, stories and the four ways to get involved, following the foundation’s Emerald Trust brand guide
- Build: 29 pages, with the same page addresses as the earlier HTML version of the site
- Forms: contact, order, donation, volunteer and partner forms, each with a branded confirmation email to the sender
- Fonts and images: fonts cut down to the characters the site uses, including Bangla, and photos served in modern formats at several sizes
How is it built?
- Astro, producing plain static pages
- One small PHP handler for the forms, which checks each request, limits repeat submissions and emails the team
- Security headers and a content security policy set at the server
- About 2 KB of JavaScript for the menu, forms and the cycle widget
A static site suits a foundation like this: pages load fast on a phone, and there is no login page for anyone to attack.
What did I measure?
I ran a Lighthouse test on the live home page on 5 November 2026, mobile settings:
- Performance 99, accessibility 100, best practices 100, SEO 100
- Largest content on screen after 2.1 seconds, layout shift 0.009, blocking time 0 ms
This is a lab test. It does not show what real visitors on slow connections experience.
Need a site for a foundation or campaign? See custom website development.
Common questions
How long does an NGO website take to build?
It depends on the page count and how much content is ready. Wreetu's site has 29 pages: programs, products, impact stories, about, and the donate, volunteer, partner and careers pages. Having the text and photos ready before the build starts is what shortens it most.
Can an NGO website take donation, volunteer and partner enquiries?
Yes. On Wreetu's site each of those has its own form, and every form emails the team and sends the person a confirmation written in the foundation's voice.
Does an NGO need WordPress?
Not always. Wreetu's site is a static site with one small form handler, so there is no admin panel to keep updated or attack. If the team needs to edit pages themselves often, a CMS is the better fit.