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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (August 23), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (August 21).
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/
If any fraudulent flag day activity is suspected, 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 the charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on SWD homepage: www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on August 23 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
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Hong Kong Taishan Charitable White Pink
Island Association Limited
Kowloon Kwun Tong Resident Orange Orange
Association
New Children Education Yellow White
Territories Fund Limited
Ends/Thursday, August 21, 2008
Issued at HKT 15:16
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