After seeing the need for warmer footwear, a Winnipeg woman has begun giving away handmade slippers.

"When I was a 17-year-old, I had a kid and I couldn't afford slippers, but I had this old fur coat so I made some," says Murray.

Murray has been sewing for decades but found a real purpose for it when she began to sew for others.

Murray says, "I had no need for it until recently when I realized the kids at the food bank that I support were going without slippers and stuff because that is one of the first things you don't buy when you're low on food money."

For the slippers, Murray sews together old mouton coats and costume jewellery from thrift stores as a gift for the kids she meets at the food bank at Ness Avenue Baptist Church.

"Unfortunately, I have had to buy them," Murray says of all her materials.

Recently she has been receiving donations for creating these slippers but hopes to see more donations land on her front porch to help keep Winnipeg kids warm.

"Now even the kids come up and ask for them," says Murray.

From her constant presence and generosity, Murray has created more than just slippers but has also made relationships with these kids: "And when they grow out of the one pair they either pass it back to me and I remake them or they pass on to a sister or a brother. When they grow out, they come and get a bigger pair."