To celebrate Amy Jordan's life, her family and friends are fundraising for a university scholarship in her name.

"So that Amy's passion and her love for the earth can continue," said Jordan’s mother, Alison Gilbert.

Jordan died last April in a tragic accident in Winnipeg.

Her organs, tissues and eyes were donated to 80 people. One of the recipients wrote to her family, thanking them for her kidney.

"I'm not going to lie. I had a moment of bitterness when I read the letter because I just thought, I'm very happy for this person, but I had to lose daughter in order for her to live. Or him," said Gilbert.

One Christmas Eve, five years ago, someone else's daughter died to save Dave Proven's life.

Proven's heart was enlarged for 13 years and he had to go on an organ donor waiting list. He said somehow he knew he'd have a new heart for Christmas that year.

"I went to bed thinking, ‘well I guess I'm not going to have a heart for Christmas.’ And I no sooner closed my eyes and drifted off, the phone rang and they said, ‘we have a heart for you’," said Proven.

He said he got up immediately and flew to Edmonton for the surgery. In Winnipeg, the only organs that can be transplanted are lungs and kidneys.

While Proven was ecstatic knowing he was getting a new heart, he said he felt a little guilty a teenage girl had to die for it.

"When they came in and told me I had a 17-year-old heart I just came unraveled. I just thought of the people, the decision those people had made on Christmas Eve," said Proven.

Proven was 60 years old when got his new heart. With it, the new grandfather was able to keep his job as a carpenter, hike with children and win medals at the Transplant Games.

His new goal, to win more medals as a sprinter in Argentina this summer.

Proven is so grateful, he wrote a song for the donor so her family realizes how much he appreciates their gift.

The donor was from Alberta, a province that has one of this country's lowest donor rates.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan have even lower rates.

Transplant Manitoba is working to change that by changing a policy that will allow donations to be accepted from people whose hearts stop working, not just from people whose brain have died.