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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island (Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps), in Kowloon (The Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council) and the New Territories (Silver Power Intergeneration Volunteer Alliances Limited) this Saturday (October 10), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (October 8).
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/).
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 the SWD homepage (www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/).
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on October 10 is as follows:
Name of Colour of Colour
Region Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
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Hong Kong Hong Kong Air Blue Blue
Island Cadet Corps
Kowloon The Neighbourhood Yellow Yellow
Advice-Action
Council
New Silver Power Pink Pink
Territories Intergeneration
Volunteer
Alliances
Limited
Ends/Thursday, October 8, 2009
Issued at HKT 17:00
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