Tao Chao, a 14-year-old girl from northeastern China’s Liaoning province has a cleft lip and cleft palate.

“This disease made her so self-concious, and we are worried about her,” said her mother, Gao Xiu’e.

“My classmates always laugh at me and I have no friends,” Tao told China Daily, unhappily.

But all this will be changed. Shenyang Sunline Plastic and Aesthetics hospital, in cooperation with the Chinese Agape Foundation, will provide free medical treatment for 150 cleft lip and cleft palate patients like Tao. The cost of this project will be 400,000 yuan ($ 58,800).

“As a specialist hospital, it’s our duty to help people who need a hand,” said Shi Lingzhi, president of Sunline.

“We will not only change their appearances, but also their fates,” she added.

The Chinese Agape Foundation, an NGO founded in 2001, aims to offer medical help for Chinese orphans and the poor.

“We come to Chinaonce a year, and this time over 20 volunteers came to Shenyang,” said Zhai Shiwei, the foundation’s director.

“I enjoy helping a lot of children whose parents can’t pay for the surgery fee,”said Hark Filstein, an aesthetic surgeon from New York.

Sunline set up a foundation named Sunline Angel this April, which is designed to help the poor. They have since provided medical service for more than 20 patients.

“I deem that my surgeon will be successful and I will become a pretty girl,” said Tao.