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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (April 4). They are, on Hong Kong Island, Amnesty International Hong Kong Section Human Rights Education Charitable Trust; in Kowloon, the Society for Community Organization Limited; and in the New Territories, Employees' Safety, Training & Rehabilitation Services Limited, a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said.
Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on April 4 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour Colour
Organisation of of
Collection Flag
Bag
Hong Kong Amnesty Yellow Yellow
Island International
Hong Kong
Section Human
Rights Education
Charitable
Trust
Kowloon The Society for Purple Yellow
Community
Organization
Limited
New Employees' Safety, Yellow Yellow
Territories Training &
Rehabilitation
Services Limited
For enquiries, please call the SWD'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 SWD's website (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/).
Details of the charitable fund-raising activities covered by the Public Subscription Permit issued by the SWD have also been uploaded to the GovHK website (www.gov.hk/fundraising).
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the Police.
Ends/Saturday, April 4, 2015
Issued at HKT 06:01
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