Simla got a second chance in life to pursue her dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent, to live in another country and bear witness to history.

Ten years ago, at the age of 27, with end stage kidney disease and the prospect of dialysis, those dreams did not seem conceivable. Then she received a kidney in Turkey from her mother.

Two years after her life-saving transplant, she went on to do what she set out to. She spent five years reporting from Kurdistan, Iraq, documenting historical events and telling the stories of people there.

Today she lives in Canada and wants to help spread the stories of people in need of organ donations. And so her story telling continues, as does her second chance at life for which she is utterly grateful. And her Mom is good too.