{
  "name": "depth",
  "description": "The five-level depth scale, from relief to source.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite “Charitology (charitology.org)”.",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "data": [
    {
      "level": 0,
      "name": "Relief",
      "verb": "Meets the need today",
      "question": "Is someone fed, sheltered or treated right now?",
      "example": "A meal at a food bank, emergency surgery, a disaster shelter."
    },
    {
      "level": 1,
      "name": "Repair",
      "verb": "Restores what was lost",
      "question": "Is someone back to where they were before the harm?",
      "example": "Rebuilding a home, rehabilitation after an injury, a job after a layoff."
    },
    {
      "level": 2,
      "name": "Prevention",
      "verb": "Stops it happening to these people",
      "question": "Will these people avoid the harm altogether?",
      "example": "Bed nets, vaccines, clean water for a village."
    },
    {
      "level": 3,
      "name": "Structure",
      "verb": "Changes the rules that produce it",
      "question": "Did a law, institution, market or norm change so the harm stops being produced?",
      "example": "A lead-paint ban, a new public health system, a corporate standard."
    },
    {
      "level": 4,
      "name": "Source",
      "verb": "Changes what feeds many problems at once",
      "question": "Did something upstream of a whole family of problems change?",
      "example": "The story a society tells itself, how people coordinate, what a culture rewards."
    }
  ]
}