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Three charities will hold flag sales from 7am to 12.30pm today (April 12). They are, on Hong Kong Island, Heep Hong Society; in Kowloon, Employees' Safety, Training & Rehabilitation Services Limited; and in the New Territories, Society for the Welfare of the Autistic Persons, 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 12 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection of Flag
Bag
Hong Kong Heep Hong Society Yellow Grey
Island
Kowloon Employees' Safety, Yellow Yellow
Training &
Rehabilitation
Services Limited
New Society for the Yellow White
Territories Welfare of the
Autistic Persons
For enquiries, please call the SWD'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 SWD'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 12, 2014
Issued at HKT 06:01
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