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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (July 7), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (July 5).
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 Social Welfare Department 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 Homepage http://www.esd.gov.hk.
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 the Social Welfare Department homepage http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on July 7 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour of
Organisation Collection Bag Flag
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Hong Kong Eternal Flame White Pink
Island Action
Kowloon Christian & Yellow Light
Missionary Blue
Alliance Church
Union Hong Kong
Limited
New Against Child Red Red
Territories Abuse Limited
Ends/Thursday, July 5, 2007
Issued at HKT 14:38
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