Zeng Liaoying depicts cats with lots of detail and imagination. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Huang Zai, co-initiator of Art Chengdu International Art Fair, was among the earliest volunteers of the foundation.

A college student back then, she went with the artists to the stricken area, donating money and paintings, as well as taking rice and oil.

They also gifted picture books to children at the rehabilitation department in hospital and asked them if they wanted to learn painting.