Chipata Girls FC
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Chipata Girls FC · Eastern Province, Zambia

A girl on the team is a girl in school. That is the whole idea.

See what we’re raising Meet the girls

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A Chipata Girls FC player in white kit smiles broadly on the touchline on a match day, teammates warming up behind her.
Players in club kit crowd around their coach in a doorway at the ground, arms around each other, everyone grinning.
A Chipata Girls FC goalkeeper rises to claim the ball above a crowd of players, in front of a stand of watching supporters.

Match day on the touchline.

The point of view

In Eastern Province, too many girls leave school early — married off, pregnant, or simply pulled out because a poor family cannot carry the cost of a daughter in class. Once she’s out, the door tends to stay shut. Football is how we keep it open: a team she belongs to, coaches who notice when she’s gone, and a reason to stay that’s stronger than the pressure to leave.

We are not trying to make every girl a professional footballer. We are trying to make sure she finishes school, marries when she chooses, and grows up to decide her own life. Football is how we hold her there long enough for that to happen. The trophies are nice. The classroom is the point.

Lusaka the capital 510 km Chipata Eastern Province
Chipata sits on the far eastern edge of Zambia, most of a country away from the capital. The club is not a programme that travelled here — it is from here.

What we do

We run a girls’ football club — training, matches, coaching, kit — and around it we do the quiet work that keeps girls enrolled: school fees, uniforms, sanitary pads, mentoring, and a team that goes looking when a player stops coming.

  • Training & matches

    A real football club: training, matches, coaching, and kit. It is meant to be the best part of the week.

  • School fees & uniforms

    Help with school fees and uniforms, and sanitary pads — the quiet work that keeps a girl enrolled.

  • Mentoring & the safety net

    Mentoring, and a team that goes looking for a player who stops showing up — before a missed week becomes something worse.

  • Open doors for talent

    For the girls with real talent, we open the pathways the game now offers. Talent is taken seriously — it is never the whole prize.

The shortest route

Your gift doesn’t pass through five offices. It goes to a local club, run by this community, that trains on the same pitch every week and knows exactly who needs boots, whose fees to pay, and who has stopped coming.

Your gift Her

The usual way. Five offices between you and her.

Your gift Her school year

Ours. One stop — the club, on the same pitch, this week.

Our players

Girls with names, positions, and a season ahead of them.

The squad grouped together on a grass pitch under a wide sky, laughing and posing for the camera after training.
A large group of girls gathers with bags and kit on a bare, dusty pitch at the edge of the trees, ready for a session.
A Chipata Girls FC goalkeeper rises to claim the ball above a crowd of players, in front of a stand of watching supporters.

    The full squad — who plays where, and what a place on this team is tied to.

    Meet our girls

    Show the work

    These are our girls. Here’s how it’s going — the football, the numbers, and where the money went.

      Coaches and staff stand in a classroom holding certificates, with footballs and training bibs on the table in front of them.

      Coaches and staff with their training certificates.

      What we’re raising for

      See the four funds, itemised →

      The ask

      Give once, or every month. $30 keeps one girl in school for a month; $360 covers her whole school year. Every amount below is a real line in our project, not a number we invented to nudge you.

      See all four funds

      Secure checkout · Tax-deductible in the US · 501(c)(3) partner

      Nothing is collected on this site. The project page shows every line, then hands you to our partner’s secure checkout to finish.

      The truth we hold to

      We will never exaggerate the hardship to move you, and we’ll never make a girl small to loosen your wallet. The facts are hard enough on their own — and these girls are more than the hardest thing about their lives.

      Keep a girl in school this year.

      It’s secure, it’s tax-deductible through our US 501(c)(3) partner, and we’ll show you where it went.

      See what we’re raising

      Secure checkout · Tax-deductible in the US · 501(c)(3) partner

      Four funds, every line costed. You choose which one your gift goes to.