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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Wednesday (August 13), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (August 11).
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, www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_whatsnew/
If fraudulent flag day activities are suspected, 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 by charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on the SWD homepage: www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on August 13 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong St. James' Red White
Island Settlement
Kowloon Barnabas Pink Blue
Charitable
Service
Association
Limited
New Echo Valley Green Green
Territories Evangelistic
Association
for the
Handicaps Limited
Ends/Monday, August 11, 2008
Issued at HKT 16:22
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