Doctors and nurses of Operation Sunrise are currently providing free reconstructive surgery to more than 90 poor children with cleft lips and palates in east China's Shandong Province, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.

Operation Sunrise is a nonprofit international program dedicated to helping children and young people around the world who suffer from cleft lips and palates and other facial birth defects.

A nurse with Operation Sunrise takes care of a child after surgery in the Linyi People's Hospital of Shandong Province on Monday, August 27, 2007.

Skilled professionals of Operation Sunrise provide reconstructive surgery to children born with cleft lips and palates in the Linyi People's Hospital of Shandong Province on Monday, August 27, 2007.

Staff of Operation Sunrise send a child patient back to parents in the Linyi People's Hospital of Shandong Province on Monday, August 27, 2007.

(CRIENGLISH.com August 28, 2007)