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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Wednesday (July 25), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (July 23).
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 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 SWD homepage http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on July 25 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong Junior Green Light
Island Achievement Green
(Hong Kong)
Limited
Kowloon South Asian Yellow White
Lutheran
Evangelical
Mission Limited
New The Society for Orange White
Territories Truth and Light
Ends/Monday, July 23, 2007
Issued at HKT 15:10
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