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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (March 31), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (March 29).
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 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/ 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.
The Government has promulgated the "Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activities" for voluntary compliance of 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 March 31 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour of
Organisation Collection Bag Flag
Hong Kong Centre for Green Green
Island Restoration of
Human Relationships
Limited
Kowloon Hong Kong Orange Orange
Employment
Development Service
Limited
New End Child Sexual Purple White
Territories Abuse Foundation
Ends/Thursday, March 29, 2007
Issued at HKT 10:48
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