Unidentified Body | Female 50-60 | Winnipeg Recycling Bin

[Concerned]

Would like a description of this woman. It may be one of our missing persons. To think, a person is homeless and no one took the time time to get a name, but they've seen her around. Her family could have been looking for her all these years. Maybe she wouldn't have been living in a bin. Perhaps we should think about registering the homeless.

Woman's body found in bin
Gabrielle Giroday, Postmedia News · Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010

She was a gentle homeless woman who would spend hours camped out in Winnipeg-area establishments who'd put up with her. But no one knew her name.

So Mounties turned to the public Friday to try to find out who the woman was, after she died inside a recycling bin.

On Wednesday, employees of a BFI recycling facility discovered the 50-to 60-year-old woman as they sorted through cardboard.

Police said the death was accidental, and happened at some point while a truck collected and transported the cardboard in the bin for recycling, then dumped it out again.

"[It's] horrible that in Canada stuff like this is still happening," said Carol Little, manager of the nearby Goodwill Store.

Mounties contacted the store Wednesday in hopes of identifying the woman. They handed out her photo, made from surveillance footage at a Tim Hortons, where the woman also sought shelter and safety.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Woman+body+found/3927494/story.html

[getsolved]

lt is really awful that there is such a thing as homelessness in this city l don't have a clue where to begin but l wish l could do my part in helping those who suffer from homelessness.  any tips?   

[Annastaisha]

I am not from there, but am going to assume that there are shelters - and you cant make an adult seek shelter. However, you could pass out warm wool socks and  blankets, mittens etc.