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When a 3-year-old girl in Whitehorse, Yukon, died of a heart attack at the age of 2, her parents set out to find a way to honor her and help other children in the same community, the Yukon News reports.
That's exactly what they did, with the help of a Canadian government program that gives money to groups to do just that.
The Yukon Children's Fund, part of Canada's government's Family Innovations Stream, handed out more than $37,000 to 18 groups in Whitehorse and another town in the Yukon last month.
The money was used to buy heart monitors, stethoscopes, and other medical equipment, as well as to create a playpen and a playground for the children, the Yukon News reports.
"We wanted to give back to the community in a way that would be meaningful to the children," says the president of the Yukon Children's Fund.
"We wanted to give back to the community in a way that would be meaningful to the 3-year-old girl."
The fund's website says the money is meant to help "at-risk" children and their families.
The Yukon Children's Fund isn't the first government program to offer money to groups to help kids in the area of health
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