Guest · Episode 11

Hartini Zainudin

Co-Founder, Yayasan Chow Kit

"Visible work for invisible children"

Hartini Zainudin co-founded Yayasan Chow Kit to provide services to Malaysia's most legally invisible population: stateless children, foundlings, and undocumented minors who exist outside every institutional definition. Her work sits at the intersection of child protection, legal advocacy, and direct service delivery in one of Kuala Lumpur's most underserved communities.

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Co-Founder, Yayasan Chow Kit

Co-founded and leads one of Malaysia's most significant frontline organisations serving stateless children, foundlings, and undocumented minors in Kuala Lumpur's Chow Kit district.

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Child Rights & Legal Advocacy

Sustained advocacy work on the legal and institutional frameworks that produce statelessness in Malaysia, and the reform agendas needed to address them.

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Frontline Service Delivery

Decades of direct service delivery alongside advocacy — a combination that grounds her public voice in operational reality rather than policy abstraction.

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