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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (December 22). They are, on Hong Kong Island, Suicide Prevention Services Limited; in Kowloon, Hope Worldwide; and in the New Territories, South Kwai Chung Service Centre, 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 December 22 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong Suicide Prevention Red Red
Island Services Limited
Kowloon Hope Worldwide Yellow Blue
New South Kwai Chung Green White
Territories Service Centre
For enquiries, please call the department's hotline at 2343 2255, or the 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 a one-stop portal(www.gov.hk/en/theme/fundraising/today/) launched by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer.
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, December 22, 2012
Issued at HKT 06:01
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