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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island (Saint Barnabas' Society and Home), in Kowloon (Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children) and the New Territories (Pok Oi Hospital) from 7am to 12.30pm this Saturday (April 17), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (April 14).
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 "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 April 17 is as follows:
Colour of
Name of collection Colour
Region organisation bag of flag
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Hong Kong Saint Barnabas' Red Grey
Island Society and Home
Kowloon Hong Kong Orange Orange
Society for
the Protection
of Children
New Pok Oi Hospital Red Pink
Territories
Ends/Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Issued at HKT 11:20
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