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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (September 27), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (September 25).
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/.
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 of the charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on the department homepage http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/ˇ@
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on Saturday is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong The Society for Yellow White
Island the Promotion
of Hospice Care
Kowloon The Hong Kong Yellow Yellow
Association Buddhist
New Society for Yellow White
Territories the Welfare of
the Autistic Persons
Ends/Thursday, September 25, 2008
Issued at HKT 15:38
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