Company Profile
AHFL (Allen’s Housing & Finance Ltd., ) was born on 22nd October 1992 under the leadership of Dr.G.P. Sarkar. The main purpose of AHFL is to work with both men & women who are socially disadvantaged and economically challenged. AHFL works for their social upliftment. To achieve the above objective, AHFL is basically engaged in the delivery of micro finance services to the needy.
AHFL has been engaged in the delivery of micro finance service for the last 23 years. The model followed is individual lending through group formation. All micro finance activities are carried under Allen’s Housing & Finance Ltd, incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and also registered as a Non Banking Financial Company (NBFC) with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The micro finance operations started from Krishnapur, Kolkata-700102.
AHFL’s commitment towards triple bottom-line values is strongly asserted by its intervention in development activities. It believes that Micro finance is not the last word for development of the poor. Aspiring to holistic development of the poor. AHFL offers development activities in crucial fields of education, health, unemployment, livelihood and the like through its not-for profit entity. Besides, AHFL also has a program exclusively for the hard core poor (generally believed to be bypassed by micro finance).