Alliance Finance helps plant over 150,000 trees on World Environment Day
View(s):Alliance Finance Co (AFC) marked June 5 – World Environment Day – with a campaign across 25 districts and involving 371,000 children in a massive tree planting campaign.
Picture shows AFC Deputy Chairman Romani De Silva helping to plant a tree.
Through the company’s Thuru Mithuru programme AFC teams spread across the country to 991 schools to help plant 176,518 trees that would absorb 3,843 metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide per annum.
In a media release, the company said that one such school in Colombo that hosted the programme was the Kotahena Madhya Maha Vidyalaya. Headed by the School Principal, Mohan Weerasinghe, more than 100 students from the senior and junior forms took part in the tree planting exercise within the school compound, assisted by a band of enthusiastic teachers and a dedicated AFC team led by the Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Romani De Silva himself.
“Our company is extremely satisfied by the spontaneous enthusiasm shown by the entire school in this volunteer effort. Right now, our teams across the island are doing the same in many other locations,” he said at the event.
AFC is fulfilling a pledge made on July 28, 2013 to offset the carbon footprint of their motor vehicle leasing customers. Alliance Finance Co. PLC is Sri Lanka’s pioneering triple bottom line financial institution that promotes the creed, people-planet-profit.