Pinnawala Celebrates its 47th Anniversary with People’s Leasing and Finance PLC
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is renowned as a tourist destination in Sri Lanka, which has attracted a large number of foreigners and locals marks its 47th Anniversary on the 16th of February 2022.
In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Organizations, an awareness board on elephants for public display, were exposed by Mrs. Shermila Rajapaksha, Director General of the Department of National Zoological Gardens, as one of the corporate social responsibility initiatives of the People’s Leasing & Finance PLC.
Mr. Nawod Abeysinghe, Deputy Director (Field) in Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, Mrs. Dilani Amarasinghe, Deputy Director (Pinnawala Zoo), Mr. Hishan Welmilla, Manager – Marketing, Communication and Sustainability and Mr.Roshan Madawala, Branch Manager of People’s Leasing and Finance PLC, Kegalle Branch were present at the event.
While realizing the collective responsibility of educating the public regarding the elephant population in the Elephant Sanctuary, People’s Leasing and Finance PLC undertook this task with the objective of conserving the elephant resource under the direction of Mr. Mihiran Medawala, Deputy Director (Office), Mrs. Chandrika Priyadarshani, Development Officer and other Administrative Officers at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
The Orphanage was established in 1975 by Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Department with the objective of caring and protecting orphaned elephants. Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is also a nursery and a captive breeding ground for Asian wild elephants which is under the supervision of the Department of National Zoological Gardens since 1978.
People’s Leasing and Finance PLC, which marked its 25th Anniversary in 2021, has been carrying out a number of eco-friendly projects. People’s Leasing and Finance PLC continued its commitment for the 3rd year since 2018 to restore the 1 hectare of degraded fern land adjacent to the Kanneliya Forest Reserve, Opatha in partnership with Biodiversity Sri Lanka engaging with 10 corporates under guidance of the Department of Forest.
People’s Leasing and Finance PLC is a leading Non-Bank Financial Institution in Sri Lanka and a subsidiary of People’s Bank, one of the largest state-owned banks in the country.Commening operations in 1996 as a specialized leasing company, People’s Leasing and Finance PLC was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2011.People’s Leasing has grown to become a diversified non-banking financial powerhouse with six subsidiaries in areas including overseas operations in Bangladesh.
