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Three charities would hold flag sales on Hong Kong Island, in Kowloon and the New Territories respectively on Saturday (March 17), a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department said today (Mar 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 SWD 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. Members of the public 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 March 17 is as follows:
Region Name of Colour of Colour of
Organisation Collection Bag Flag
Hong Kong Chinese Orange White
Island Evangelical Zion
Church Limited
Kowloon Christian Action Green Yellow
New Asbury Methodist Yellow White
Territories Social Service
Ends/Thursday, March 15, 2007
Issued at HKT 10:12
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