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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (April 29), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (April 27).
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 its headquarters at 2832 4311.
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/ and ESD Life's website http://www.esdlife.com.
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the police.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on April 29 is as follows:
Region Organisation Colour of Colour
Collection of Flag
Bag
HK Island Open Door Yellow Light
Ministries green
Limited
Kowloon Hong Kong Yellow Orange
Society for
the Protection
of Children
NT Employees' Yellow Yellow
Safety, Training
& Rehabilitation
Services Limited
Ends/Thursday, April 27, 2006
Issued at HKT 11:42
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