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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively this Saturday (May 10), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (May 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/
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 of the charitable organisations. Members of the public may browse the Reference Guide on SWD homepage www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on May 10 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong The Neighbourhood Orange Yellow
Island Advice-Action Council
Kowloon Asian Outreach Hong Green Orange
Kong Limited
New Employees' Safety, Yellow Yellow
Territories Training &
Rehabilitation
Services Limited
Ends/Thursday, May 8, 2008
Issued at HKT 11:07
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