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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island (Carnation Womenˇ¦s Association), in Kowloon (The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong) and the New Territories (North District Hospital Charitable Foundation) respectively on Saturday (August 29), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (August 27).
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 on 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 by the charitable organisations. Members of the public 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 of Flag
Bag
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Hong Kong Carnation Women's Yellow Yellow
Island Association
Kowloon The Mental Health Green White
Association of
Hong Kong
New North District Purple Purple
Territories Hospital
Charitable
Foundation
Ends/Thursday, August 27, 2009
Issued at HKT 17:37
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