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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (June 7), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (June 5).
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/
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 ˇ§Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activitiesˇ¨ for voluntary compliance by charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on SWD's homepage: www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on June 7 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong Hong Kong Air Cadet Blue Blue
Island Corps
Kowloon The Hong Kong Joint Yellow Purple
Council of Parents of
the Mentally Handicapped
New The Society for the Aid Red White
Territories and Rehabilitation of Drug
Abusers
Ends/Thursday, June 5, 2008
Issued at HKT 15:38
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