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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (February 17), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (Feb 15).
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 Social Welfare Department 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/ and ESD Life's website http://www.esdlife.com
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 “Reference Guide on Best Practices for Charitable Fund-raising Activities” 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 Saturday is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour
Organisation Collection Bag of Flag
Hong Kong Operation Yellow Light
Island Dawn Limited Green
Kowloon Barnabas Charitable Pink Blue
Service Association
Limited
New Suicide Prevention Red Red
Territories Services
Ends/Thursday, February 15, 2007
Issued at HKT 16:26
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