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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island (The Society for Community Organisation Limited), in Kowloon (Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children) and the New Territories (The Yuen Yuen Institute) on Saturday (April 25), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (April 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 on 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 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 25 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong The Society Purple Yellow
Island for Community
Organisation
Limited
Kowloon Hong Kong Society Orange Orange
for the Protection
of Children
New The Yuen Yuen Green Light
Territories Institute Yellow
Ends/Thursday, April 23, 2009
Issued at HKT 18:26
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