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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (November 24), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (November 22).
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 SWD headquarters at 2832 4311 during office hours.
Information on the flag days of the month is also available at the department's website www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/ and ESD homepage www.esd.gov.hk.
If fraudulent flag day activities are suspected, 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 by charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on the SWD's homepage www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on November 24 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
Hong Kong Alliance for Light Light
Island Patients' Blue Blue
Mutual
Help
Organisations
Kowloon Open Door Yellow White
Ministries
Limited
New Hong Kong Pink Pink
Territories Movie Star
Sports
Association
Charities
Limited
Ends/Thursday, November 22, 2007
Issued at HKT 15:00
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