1-year milestone for Morgan’s Warriors: helping people in community
Posted July 31, 2025 5:45 pm.
Last Updated July 31, 2025 6:43 pm.
New national research from Thomas Reuters suggests Manitoba has one of the highest rates of missing Indigenous women linked to trafficking in Canada.
That’s why grassroots organizations are filling the gap by going straight into communities and helping people on the ground, in real time.
“We are out there knocking on doors and looking for answers,” said Melissa Robinson, the co-founder Morgan’s Warriors.
“If we weren’t out there doing what we’re doing, then who’s going to do that work?”
Robinson has seen many people fall through the gaps. That’s why her group is reaching out directly to people who need help.
“We’ve been able to remove … women from unsafe situations and take them somewhere where they can be safe,” she said.
“We’ve helped with getting them home up north on flights by contacting their chiefs. We’ve helped with rehab, helping families that are missing their loved ones, helping with search parties for that as well.”
Manitoba represents one of the biggest hotspots in Canada for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2Spirit people, with Winnipeg representing 14 per cent of the 185 disappearances the study identified from 2010 to April 2024.
Joseph Munro, who partners with Morgan’s Warriors and is the founder of First Nations Indigenous Warriors, says it’s important for people to have a safe place to land with familiar faces.
“I’m just trying to bring change to what a hurting community needs. One person at a time is the way we started,” said Munro.
“That’s their hard work, is being out in the community, doing that work.”
As Morgan’s Warriors marks their first-year milestone, Robinson says the group has big plans in the works: a shelter for women.
“We need someone where our women can go to rest. Lay their head, and not worry about being preyed upon,” she said.
Robinson told CityNews an organization interested in providing space for the potential shelter, and she’s meeting with them this week.
“That’s my medicine. And I say it all the time, I express it to our group, what it means to me to be out there with everyone. Helping is healing,” Robinson said.
