The 20-year-old niece of Robin Needham, the director of CARE Nepal who died in last year's tsunami in Thailand, has enlisted the support of hundreds of celebrities to join a unique fundraising drive for victims of the disaster.
Daisy Bell, the psychology student from Edinburgh, has got luminaries like Paul McCartney, Elizabeth Hurley, Damien Hirst, footballers and DJs to draw and doodle on postcards which will be auctioned at Christies on 30 September.
"It was the most terrible feeling when my uncle died," Bell said in a newspaper interview in Edinburgh, "he was amazing, he spent his life helping people. Everyone has someone in their life who is the most incredible person. He was mine." 
Earlier this year, Daisy decided to raise ?10,000 for Care International in memory of her uncle, who would have been involved in tsunami relief had he not lost his life. Robin Needham had worked with UNICEF in Thailand and served in Somalia and Bangladesh before he was appointed director of CARE Nepal in 1998.
With two weeks to go for the auction, Daisy Bell has already got 300 postcards with celebrity art on them which can be viewed online at www.artofcare.co.uk. Christie's Scotland is organising the auction and estimates that the overall money raised could top ?40,000. Proceeds will go to a special fund set up to help specific villages ravaged by the tsunami.
Bernard Williams, the director of Christie's who will be auctioning 65 of the postcards at the opening night of the exhibition on 30 September, told The Telegraph: "We are potentially looking at tens of thousands of pounds. Hirst and McCartney are star lots." The rest of the paintings will be auctioned online.
After being involved in relief efforts in Asia and Africa for more than three decades Needham came to Nepal with CARE and led healthcare, water and education projects throughout Nepal, including Maoist-affected areas. He was particularly concerned with the protection of children from the conflict and was chairman of the Association of International NGOs in Nepal, coordinating the work of more than 50 relief agencies. (See 'Nepal will miss Robin', #228.)
Robin Needham was vacationing with his wife and four children at Golden Buddha Beachon Ko Phra Thong, an island off the Thai coast, when the tsunami struck. He was last seen directing people off the beach and his body was found three days later in a forest. His family survived.
Robin had a lively sense of humour and one of his hobbies was collecting single malt whiskey. His wife Lucy is organising a fundraiser with malt tasting in Kathmandu in mid-October.
