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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Wednesday (August 22), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (August 20).
Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.
For enquiries, please call the department's hotline at 2343 2255, or Social Welfare Department headquarters at 2832 4311 during office hours.
Information on the flag days of the month is also available at the department's website http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/ and ESD homepage http://www.esd.gov.hk.
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the police.
The Government has promulgated the "Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activities" for voluntary compliance of the charitable organisations. People may browse the Reference Guide on the Social Welfare Department homepage http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on Wednesday is as follows:
Colour of
Name of collection Colour of
Region organisation bag flag
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Hong Neighbourhood & White White
Kong Worker's Education
Island Centre Limited
Kowloon CTU Education Green Green
Foundation Limited
New The Yuen Yuen Institute Green Light
Territories yellow
Ends/Monday, August 20, 2007
Issued at HKT 16:40
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