"It was Steinbach Community Outreach that helped feed me and keep a roof over my head for the remaining three weeks of my homeless journey," writes Lisa Wiebe.

Lisa Wiebe says while she was homeless in Winnipeg, she "learned there are so many roadblocks, it felt like they were put into place just to keep the homeless precisely where they are: in a constant state of survival of the fittest."

When Lisa Wiebe tells people she was once homeless, the question she's most often asked is "why?" she writes. "I put my faith and trust in a system that is so broken, it failed me, even though it was designed to help low-income and poverty-stricken individuals and families," she says.