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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (September 15), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (September 13).
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 ˇ§Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activitiesˇ¨ 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 September 15 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
Hong Kong End Child Sexual Purple White
Island Abuse Foundation
Kowloon The Industrial Yellow Yellow
Evangelistic
Fellowship Limited
New Hong Kong Green Green
Territories Association
for Specific
Learning
Disabilities
Ends/Thursday, September 13, 2007
Issued at HKT 16:43
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