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Three charities will hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (March 3), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (March 1).
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 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 the Social Welfare Department homepage http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/page_controlofc/sub_referenceg/.
Information on the three flag-selling organisations on March 3 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour of
Organisation Collection Bag Flag
Hong Kong The Pentecostal Purple Purple
Island Holiness Church
Hong Kong
Conference
Kowloon International Purple Purple
Church of the
Foursquare
Gospel - Hong
Kong District
Limited
New
Territories TREATS Red White
Ends/Thursday, March 1, 2007
Issued at HKT 16:24
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