Alliance Finance Company PLC (AFC) is the second oldest finance company in Sri Lanka whose business philosophy is guided by triple bottom line principles focusing on People, Planet and Profit whilst meeting local and international sustainable development priorities. AFC has been built on a solid foundation of trust possessing an unblemished track record for ethical business practices in Sri Lanka over six decades.
In helping with its efforts to integrate an environmental focus into its core business of leasing, AFC collaborated Lions’ Club International, District 306 B1 in 2019 providing RDA with 40,000 plants for the selected stretches alongside the Southern and Kaduwela Expressways. This year AFC again had the opportunity to be a partner of “The Green Expressway” program of RDA, where they seek to plant 100,000 more saplings alongside the current and proposed expressways. RDA with its passionate team is an ideally equipped partner capable of making a positive contribution to this joint endeavor.
These plants are supplied by Mr. Jayantha
from Thuru Viyana, a successful social
entrepreneur who emerged from the
pioneering Ath Pavura Program, whose
business is now supported by AFC as a
social enterprise invested through its
foundation.
With the 50.000 plants
donated during the year, the total
number of trees planted alongside the
expressways by AFC amount to 90,000;
which will absorb around 1,980MTs of CO2
annually. In addition to CO2 absorption,
this program also creates a buffer for
reduction of emissions over the
environment. It will also create an
element of visual beauty for all
travellers using the expressway, when
passing through this green belt. This
initiative would add a further impetus
to our One Million Trees for Unity
project, where we have pledged to plant
one million trees across the island by
2023.
