Kim Kardashian lends a helping hand to Afghan female footballers
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Kim Kardashian helps Afghan female footballers
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian joined hands with a rabbi and Premier League team Leeds United to help members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development football team to relocate to the United Kingdom. ever since the Taliban’s takeover of the country, female athletes of Afghanistan have been in grave danger.
A chartered plane funded by Kim carried more than 30 teenage players and their families and landed at Stansted Airport near London. Including the football team, about 130 people in all were granted safe passage out of the war-torn country. The Afghans will be going through a 10-day quarantine before they start their new lives in England.
Kim Kardashian’s timely intervention helps development team win the race against time
While Australia evacuated the members of Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team, the youth girls’ team was resettled in Portugal. The youth development team fled to Pakistan with their lives. While they managed to obtain UK visas, they were stranded in Pakistan as no flights were available and the time ticked down on their visa.
“Many of those families left their houses when the Taliban took over. Their houses were burnt down,“ Khalida Popal, a former captain of Afghanistan’s national women’s team told the Associated Press. “Some of their family members were killed or taken by Taliban. So the danger and the stress was very high, and that’s why it was very important to move fast to get them outside Afghanistan.“
The team got help from the Tzedek Association, a nonprofit U.S. group. The group’s founder, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, has worked with reality TV star Kim Kardashian West on criminal justice reform in the U.S. He reached out to her to help.”Maybe an hour later, after the Zoom call, I got a text message that Kim wants to fund the entire flight,” Margaretten said.
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