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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island (The Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care), in Kowloon (the Hong Kong Buddhist Association) and the New Territories (Yan Oi Tong Limited) respectively on Saturday (April 11), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (April 9).
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, members of the public 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 by 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 April 11 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong The Society for Yellow White
Island the Promotion of
Hospice Care
Kowloon The Hong Kong Yellow Yellow
Buddhist
Association
New Yan Oi Tong Yellow White
Territories Limited
Ends/Thursday, April 9, 2009
Issued at HKT 11:59
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