LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - You know the quote “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

That’s the philosophy a Louisville small business owner and her friend are taking to help people about 6,000 miles away in Nigeria.

Jill Higginbotham opened J Michaels Spa and Salon in St. Matthews nearly 15 years ago.

“People are always like, ‘Are you going to do a second location?’ I’m like no. Then I did, in another country,” Higginbotham says with a laugh.

That country is Nigeria. In the historical town of Egbe.

Her friend, Patrice Miles, and her husband worked to rebuild a hospital there from 2013 to 2019. She was shocked by what she saw.

“Watching those little kids come and just be willing to like dig holes all day long and they’d be

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