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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (November 22), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (November 20).
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 (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 "Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activities" for voluntary compliance of the charitable organisations. People may browse the Reference Guide on SWD homepage (http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/).
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 Retina Hong Kong Green White
Island
Kowloon Tsz Kwong Purple Purple
Community Service
Link
New Wai Ji Christian Golden Yellow Yellow
Territories Service
Ends/Thursday, November 20, 2008
Issued at HKT 15:02
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