Kim Kardashian Helps About 130 Women Soccer Players Leave Afghanistan On Flight

About 130 teenage girls who were members of Afghanistan's youth development soccer team arrived in the U.K. on Thursday on a flight funded by reality television star Kim Kardashian.

The plane landed at Stansted Airport near London and carried more than 130 teenage players and their families who will spend 10 days in COVID-19 quarantine before starting new lives in the U.K., according to the Associated Press.

The Afghan women also received assistance from a New York rabbi and English Premier League club Leeds United.

"Proud to be part of the team to make this real," Andrea Radrizzani, the majority owner of Leeds United, posted on Twitter.

As of September, Afghanistan banned women from playing sports under the Taliban regime. The new government said it was against Islamic practices and women’s sport was considered neither appropriate nor necessary.

Since then, a multinational network of athlete advocates and human rights lawyers have been aiding the evacuation of women athletes from Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported.

Kardashian efforts were joined by Tzedek Association, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization. The group’s founder, Rabbi Moshe Margaretten, worked with Kardashian in the past on criminal justice reform. Wanting to help the Afghan women athletes, he reached out to Kardashian to ask if she could help pay the airfare.

"Maybe an hour later, after the Zoom call, I got a text message that Kim wants to fund the entire flight," Margaretten told the AP.

Kardashian's spokesperson confirmed the donation.