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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively tomorrow (May 24), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said today (May 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 at 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 ˇ°Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activitiesˇ± for voluntary compliance of the charitable organisations. People 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 May 24 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong End Child Sexual Purple White
Island Abuse Foundation
Kowloon Hong Kong Adventure Red White
Corps Limited
New Silver Power Pink Pink
Territories Intergeneration Volunteer
Alliances Limited
Ends/Friday, May 23, 2008
Issued at HKT 12:38
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