Rachel Beckwith, a 9-year-old girl from Bellevue, will be honored for her gifts of organ donation during a Donate Life Month ceremony April 15 at the Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia.

She will be one of six honored at the 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event that will include Gov. Jay Inslee.

In May of 2011, Rachel asked that in lieu of birthday gifts that year that her family and friends help raise money for a charity to bring clean drinking water to African villages. When her birthday came around in June she had just narrowly missed her goal of raising $300.

She died one month later, but charitable then charitable donations on her webpage skyrocketed, raising over $1 million for the non-profit charity: water. She also was able to save three lives by donating both of her kidneys and her liver.

April is Donate Life Month, a national initiative to raise awareness of the need for organ, eye and tissue donors. More than 115,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving transplant nationwide, including nearly 2,000 in the Northwest neighbors. One organ, eye, and tissue donor can save or enhance the lives of over 50 people.