Children’s rights advocate pens picture book of hope and resilience

'I want to reach as wide an audience as possible, because a lot of the work that we do, especially with families, are really Malaysian children, Malaysian mothers, Malaysian people who, because they have a lack of support, actually leave their children in places they shouldn’t,' says Hartini. Photo: The Star/Faihan Ghani

A foundling is defined as “a young child who is left by its parents and then found and cared for by someone else.”

But in Datuk Dr Hartini Zainudin’s debut children’s book, The Foundling, they are a symbol of hope, shining brightly in their own right.