People are silhouetted as they leave the water after swimming, during a sunset, amid a countrywide lockdown in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters
People are silhouetted as they leave the water after swimming, during a sunset, amid a countrywide lockdown in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters
A Turkish soldier wearing a protective facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19, patrols during the ceremony for the National Sovereignty and Children's Day at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Ankara. AFP
A Turkish soldier wearing a protective facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19, patrols during the ceremony for the National Sovereignty and Children's Day at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Ankara. AFP
Fadia Khalil, a 22-year-old member of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, plays the violin on the roof of her house in the district of Zayounah in Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
Fadia Khalil, a 22-year-old member of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, plays the violin on the roof of her house in the district of Zayounah in Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
Nubian boys lead camels along an alley in the village of Gharb Suhail near Aswan in Upper Egypt, some 920 kilometres south of the capital Cairo. AFP
Nubian boys lead camels along an alley in the village of Gharb Suhail near Aswan in Upper Egypt, some 920 kilometres south of the capital Cairo. AFP
A Sunni Muslim cleric uses a telescope to gaze while searching for the crescent moon, which if sighted would mark the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Abu Al Hanifa Al Numan mosque in the Adhamiya district of Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
A Sunni Muslim cleric uses a telescope to gaze while searching for the crescent moon, which if sighted would mark the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Abu Al Hanifa Al Numan mosque in the Adhamiya district of Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
Men in the back of a pickup truck disinfect the street outside the Abu Al Hanifa Al Numan mosque in the Adhamiya district of Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
Men in the back of a pickup truck disinfect the street outside the Abu Al Hanifa Al Numan mosque in the Adhamiya district of Iraq's capital Baghdad. AFP
Syrian artist Aziz al-Asmar and his assistant Bachar Hamdoun paint a mural depicting the situation of displaced Syrians in camps amid the Covid-19 pandemic ahead of Ramadan, in the town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. AFP
Syrian artist Aziz al-Asmar and his assistant Bachar Hamdoun paint a mural depicting the situation of displaced Syrians in camps amid the Covid-19 pandemic ahead of Ramadan, in the town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. AFP
Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu (centre), wearing a protective face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus, attends with other top officials the ceremony for the National Sovereignty and Children's Day at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Ankara. AFP
Chairman of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu (centre), wearing a protective face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus, attends with other top officials the ceremony for the National Sovereignty and Children's Day at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, in Ankara. AFP
A Palestinian worker sprays water outside shops decorated ahead of Ramadan in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters
A Palestinian worker sprays water outside shops decorated ahead of Ramadan in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters
Eleven years old sixth grader Rawan poses for a photograph in her home before the start of an e-learning class with her UNRWA school (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) which closed in March as a measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, at Al-Wehdat Palestinian Refugee camp, Southeast Amman, Jordan. EPA
Eleven years old sixth grader Rawan poses for a photograph in her home before the start of an e-learning class with her UNRWA school (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) which closed in March as a measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, at Al-Wehdat Palestinian Refugee camp, Southeast Amman, Jordan. EPA

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Name: Thndr
Started: 2019
Co-founders: Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr
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Headquarters: Egypt
UAE base: Hub71, Abu Dhabi
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Studied up to grade 12 in Vatanappally, a village in India’s southern Thrissur district

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His dream is to continue working as a social worker and help people

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