Bobbie Blodgett

This week, I want to introduce you to the health care, or lack of health care, in Kenya. The health care is a broken system, that is desperate for Funding, Facilities and Medical Provider's. World Health Organizations  reports, that Kenya has just one doctor and only 12 nurses/midwives, for every 10,000 people,  For the young children in Kenya, immunizations against disease, is a luxury that they do not have. Malnutrition prevents these kids from being healthy and effects their growth, learning abilities and education. Children's multi vitamins, that we take for granted, are not available to keep them healthy. The young girls and women, do not have the luxury of regular Pap Smear exams and Mammogram testing. There is no Planned Parenthood  to offer Medical Screenings and Birth Control assistance. There is no Women's World Health Foundation, to step in and offer medical care and a cure for HIV.    There are no modern medical facilities for pregnant wo...

As a woman, I believe that every woman should be able to embrace, being a woman. We should be able to be comfortable in our own skin and we should not have to compromise our femininity. We should be able to 'own' being a woman. For many woman and young girls of Kenya, embracing being a woman, isn't always the option. In some villages, woman have to feel that having a menstrual cycle each month, is a shame. Many young girls in Kenya, are missing out on going to school, because of having a period each month. We live in a society that is built off of modern technology and never have to think of feminine products and sanitary napkins as a luxury in life. We are fortunate enough, that our government had no desire, to control how woman survive their period each month. Life for the young girls and women in Kenya, is not as simplified. Sanitary napkins are available, at a high price and not all have the money to buy them. In the village's where poverty has no ending, you...

Everyone, I would like you to meet the Founder and Executive Director, of Malika Foundation & Center for Disadvantaged Girls, Kenya,  Phionah Musumba. I was so touched by her story, I decided to let her tell you in her own words, by sharing her email to me, with you. It is an example of, when you think that you had a hard life, there is someone else, that has had it worse. Here it is: Dear Bobbie, Thank you for showing an interest in our work. I will try to answer all your questions as exhaustively as possible. 1.  Since we have never had a single donor, except for one kind lady in England whose clothing store sponsors 2 of our students through high school, we don't have a bank account as we wouldn't be able to maintain it. I'm planning to open a bank account here, so that any monies donated to our Cause can be deposited there.  The organizations I run, survive on the money that my husband and I make from his carpentry business and my freelancing odd j...

As I was networking on Stage 32   , for my Screenwriting. I connected with an amazing woman, Vinanti Sarkar, the founder and owner, of Voices of Woman World Wide. VOWW, is a web site for "Voices" for the "Voiceless" woman, young girls and men on gender equality. I received an invite to join the website and I did. Vinanti Sarkar is a Documentary Director and films woman and girls, telling their own stories. After chatting with Vinanti, I asked her, "What is the most inspiring story, that you have come across?" Vinanti told me about a woman from Kenya, Phionah Musumba, the founder and Executive Director of Malkia Foundation and Center for Disadvantaged Girls Kenya. Vinanti told me about the woman and girls in Kenya and how they have to fight to survive and live. The tears were rolling from my eyes, as I learned what the woman and girls in Kenya have to go through. It sickened me to think about the woman and young girls, having to struggle just to have...

Over the past few weeks, I have thought about all of the plans, that I have made for myself. Yes, I was one of the crazy girls, in my youth, that thought I could plan my life. As a teenager, I thought if I had a timeline and a plan of when, I would get married, have kids, etc. That my life would turnout just the way I planned. Life happened and my life has not gone, the way I planned it to. As an adult, I have finally came to accept, that life will never turn out as planned. Planning life, is kind of like setting your self up for failure or disappointment.  Sure we should all set goals and work to achieve them, but we should be realistic that life and fate may have a different plan for us. No one can predict the hard balls that life, will throw at us. There is no crystal ball to look into, that will show us how to plan life.  My most recent plan, was to sell one of my Screenplay's and to make it the top ten, in the Industry Insider Screenwriting contest. I had subm...