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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (December 20), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (December 18).
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/).
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 SWD homepage (http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/).
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on Saturday is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
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Hong Kong Heep Hong Society Yellow Grey
Island
Kowloon The Mental Health Green White
Association of
Hong Kong
New The Church of United Blue Red
Territories Brethren in Christ,
Social Service
Division
Ends/Thursday, December 18, 2008
Issued at HKT 17:55
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