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A Social Welfare Department (SWD) spokesman said that as at 6pm today (May 14), the department had received 21 applications and granted eight applications for public subscription permits to raise funds for people affected by the earthquake in Sichuan on the Mainland.
The department would process all applications as quickly as possible and issue permits to organisations that had satisfied the relevant requirements of public fund-raising activities, the spokesman said.
Any organisation planning to hold activities involving collection of money or sale or exchange for donations of badges, tokens or similar articles in a public place for charitable purposes should apply for a public subscription permit from the SWD.
Activities covered by public subscription permits are listed on the department's website at www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/.
If there is any doubt regarding the fund-raising activities, the public are welcome to call the department's hotline at 2343 2255, or SWD headquarters at 2832 4311 for enquiries during office hours.
Ends/Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Issued at HKT 20:35
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