THE adoptive parents of an abandoned baby boy have sent a message of hope to the birth mother of the toddler to let her know her child is healthy and happy.
The couple spotted the boy they adopted in a South China Morning Post feature about abandoned babies on January 2.
After reading the story, the parents wrote their own short account anonymously in a letter to the Post, hoping it would reach his birth parents.
'Above the article, you ran a photo of the big-eyed little boy that my wife and I adopted a year ago,' their letter read.
'He was found, along with some clothes, milk formula and a note, in a lavatory at Kowloon Park shortly before the 1997 handover.
'We have included a recent photo of our son. We would like his birth parents to know that he is healthy, happy and much loved.
'Judging by the note they left with him, his parents were deeply pained to have to give him up and made their sacrifice out of what they thought were his best interests.