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| Handing over Chainda Pitches first goal nets |
The logistics of getting football kit to Zambia are challenging and expensive. At present it is not economically viable for Goal Zambia to transport it and the only way we have manged to get kit there previously is to take it ourselves, limiting significantly what can be delivered, as well as what we can ask for and store in this country. Although what has already been donated and delivered is fantastic and most welcome by the affiliated academies, it remains a drop in the ocean of demand and need. The charity is contantly reinforcing to Goal Zambia the need for more shirts, shorts, socks, bibs and especially football boots.
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| New Kit in Zambia, at last |
Goal Zambia will continue to research ways of transporting kit the 6000 miles to central southern Africa in cheaper and more efficient ways but it is more beneficial to spend and invest money over there. Kit is available in the country, readily, the problem being that it is simply unaffordable for the majority of the people living and playing football there. A 25kg bag of equipment would cost approximately £300 to deliver. The economics simply don't make sense. Money is a lot easier to tranfer. Goal Zambia aims to set money aside to finance small enterprises over in Zambia and support academies to buy their own kit and provide for themselves. Money can be made to work for the academies in the longer term and avoids the dependancy problem.
Goal Zambia will divide the donated monies into different "pots". The largest proportion will be used to invest in sustainable academy related and run projects in Zambia, another pot will be reserved to raise awareness of health, social issues and promote the importance of a basic education and the third will be made available for the immediate material needs of the affiliated academies; shirts, shorts, socks, football boots and such equippment. People want to donate equipment and if possible, we want to get it there. The difference it makes to the lives and enjoyment of football for the children and young adults of the compounds is immense and difficult to describe.
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| New Shirts donated by the Brixton Tigers, London |
