DREW BARRYMORE - BARRYMORE'S A GOOD FRIEND

Peace-loving actress DREW BARRYMORE has become the first ever official 'Friend of the UNITED NATIONS'.

A new organisation named ARTISTS FOR THE UN - a partnership between the UNITED NATIONS and GLOBAL VISION FOR PEACE - hopes to encourage musicians and actors "to support the ideals, vision and mandate of the United Nations".

Barrymore enthuses, "We wake up every morning thinking, like, what more can we do in this world to make it a better, happier, more peaceful and beautiful place.

"To be philanthropic is weirdly not as easy as you want it to be because the information and the resources aren't as available as they should be.

"So when you do get an opportunity, it is so exciting, because it is not a day wasted, it's a day when you actually did something important and it feels bigger than you."