Shafeek Kabeer, CEO of Azym Technologies
The Founder and CEO of Azym Technologies, a Qatar-based company, Shafeek Kabeer charted a Qatar Airways flight with 175 expatriate passengers suffering from various circumstances.
The flight with deprived passengers departed from Qatar at 3:30am Doha time on June 26 and landed at 11am Indian time.
This is the first time in the Middle East that a private company has chartered a flight exclusively free for the passengers.
Azym Technologies has accomplished this CSR activity of repatriation programme by chartering a full flight for Indian citizens and expatriates free of cost in the current situation due to COVID-19. They have successfully sustained this unique CSR operation to ever take place in GCC by bringing home the most deserved passengers who are suffering from diabetics, serious illness, the elderly, pregnant women and those who have lost their jobs and needed support, said a statement by the company. All the passengers conveyed their words of gratitude towards Azym Technologies’ initiative to take them home. This is the first time a chartered flight flew to Kerala with non-staff passengers from the Gulf. “We are planning to take more passengers to the country for free,” said the Founder and CEO, Shafeek Kabeer.
Kabeer, an entrepreneur with a leading enterprise in the cloud technology industry, has received numerous awards including South Indian Business Icon and Cloud Guru.
Azym Technologies is one of the leading and largest cloud technology providers in the Gulf region with more than 6,000 customers.