A child with cleft palate is helped with health checkup in Nanjing Gulou Hospital in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. "Smile Project" was initiated in Nanjing Gulou Hospital last Thursday. Medial volunteers from many countries and regions including China, the U.S., Singapore and the Philippines will perform free cleft palate repair operations on 100 children with the disease in the following four days.

A child with cleft palate is checked by a medical volunteer in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

(People's Daily November 13, 2006)