Chipata Girls F.C.: four funds, $20,300, and what each one unlocks

Chipata Girls F.C. is a girls' football club in Chipata, Zambia. Its budget on this site is $20,300, and it is not one pot. It is four, each fundable on its own.

Transport, $2,300. The most ordinary line in the budget and the one that decides attendance. A club whose players cannot reliably get to training is a club that slowly becomes a club for the players who live nearby and can afford the trip.

Education, $10,000. The largest of the four. Sport is how the club reaches girls; school is what it is trying to protect. A football programme that does not engage with whether its players are still in school is measuring the wrong thing.

Well-being, $5,000. Health, safeguarding, and the practical support that keeps a girl playing through the years when many stop. This is the line that is easiest to cut and hardest to replace.

Leadership, $3,000. Developing players into coaches and organisers, which is the only version of this that outlasts any particular funder, including us.

We split it this way because a single $20,300 goal invites a single question, "is this organisation worth $20,300?", and that is a harder question than most donors can fairly answer about a club they have never visited. Four funds invite a better one: which of these four things do you most want to exist? That question you can answer.

The figures come from the club, not from us, and they replaced an older and larger round number that nobody could trace to specific costs. If a line changes, the change will show up here with a note saying what moved and why.