The program has about 38 mentors serving nearly 80 clients. Eighty-nine year old Olivia Higgins, of Lake Village, served as a mentor to a family through the Chicot County program. The family had as many as 27 people living in one household. None of them had ever worked and over a period of two years, Higgins helped several of them move off public assistance and into their own housing. She still checks up on them.
Old people are for counseling and young people are for working.
Higgins, who's lived in Lake Village most of her life, is no stranger to hard work and what it takes to succeed. I farmed, I worked in catering and I raised five babies. I did just about everything for work. I've been helping people for more than 70 years. I volunteer every day.