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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (April 13). They are, on Hong Kong Island, Centre for Restoration of Human Relationships Limited; in Kowloon, Chinese Evangelical Zion Church Limited; and in the New Territories, Hong Kong Employment Development Service Limited, a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) said.
Arrangements have been made with the charities to help people distinguish between the three flag-selling activities.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on April 13 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
Hong Kong Centre for Green Green
Island Restoration of Human
Relationships Limited
Kowloon Chinese Evangelical Yellow Blue
Zion Church Limited
New Hong Kong Employment Orange Yellow
Territories Development Service
Limited
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/).
Details of the charitable fund-raising activities covered by the Public Subscription Permit issued by the SWD have also been uploaded to the GovHK website (www.gov.hk/fundraising).
In the case of suspected fraudulent flag day activities, people should not make any donation and should immediately report the matter to the Police.
Ends/Saturday, April 13, 2013
Issued at HKT 06:01
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