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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (March 18), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (March 16).
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 its headquarters at 2832 4311.
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/ and ESD Life's website http://www.esdlife.com
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag-day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the police.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on March 18 is as follows:
Colour of Colour of
Region Organisation Collection Bag Flag
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HK Hong Kong Green Green
Island Neuro-
Muscular
Disease
Association
Kowloon International Purple Purple
Church of
the Foursquare
Gospel –
Hong Kong
District Limited
NT Asbury Methodist Yellow White
Social Service
Ends/Thursday, March 16, 2006
Issued at HKT 10:01
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