YOUTHFUL AMBITION

Most of us have conjured up a bucket list of some form – the things we want to see, do or achieve in our lifetime. Perhaps it’s to climb the Eiffel Tower, run a marathon, or learn to play an instrument. But when 16-year-old Leah Stewart wrote hers in 2007, donating a kidney was at the top of her list.

Now 23, Auckland-based Leah, a freelance camera operator and photographer who also works as a disability support worker, underwent surgery just after her 21st birthday to donate her left kidney to help a school friend, Denny, who had end-stage renal