It was on Aug. 16 when Amy Roma, a partner at Hogan Lovells, first saw the footage of Afghan refugees amassing around an American C-17 Globemaster aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. It was on this day when she first watched footage of people falling off the plane during takeoff that quickly went viral.

These terrifying images were the starting point for Washington, D.C.-based Roma and Hogan Lovells’ Pro-Bono Partner Yasmin Waljee in London to launch a global evacuation effort, particularly for the Afghan women cyclist team and other at-risk groups. As Law.com previously reported, Hogan Lovells became one of many international law firms that have since the fall of Kabul stepped up to get at-risk Afghans out of the country and resettle them in other parts of the world.