Our coordionator spotlight is on Agnes Conteh, the country coordinator in Sierra Leone. In the picture above, Agnes is shown recently receiving a Tonkolili and Bombali Women in Leadership Award. She has also received an award for being one of the most influential women in her community: Agnes Conteh is presently the country coordinator for […]

You may remember last year when Joseph Myers reached out while on a mission asking for help for children in his home country of Liberia. His dream has come true. Malnutrition screenings have begun there. Danni and His Mom Barbara Joseph is pictured here in a red shirt with a little boy named Danni: You […]

2022 was an exciting year as we continued to reach more communities asking for help. Our outreach in some of the poorest areas expanded by adding new communities in Ghana and Sierra Leone, opening a new program in Nigeria, and reopening Haiti. In 2022, we evaluated approximately 25,000 children and provided supplements to about 17,000 […]

Amazon recently announced they are cancelling Amazon Smile, their charitable giving program. In light of this, we are so excited to hear that Walmart is now offering a Spark Good Round Up option. Customers shopping on Walmart.com or the app can now round up their totals at the point of purchase to the nearest dollar […]

Neil and Cathy Van Leeuwen live in Kaysville, Utah and have been Bountiful supporters for over 10 years. Cathy shares: “We heard about Bountiful Children many years ago in a newspaper article. It touched our hearts and we felt like we needed to contribute. “We had just come home from a medical humanitarian trip to […]

The area presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala will be providing supplements to children found to be malnourished at screenings in every community outside of the capital city! Bountiful Children will continue to provide administrative support in this joint effort in Central America. How wonderful to know that all […]

BYU public health professors and students traveled to Ghana to help train new Bountiful coordinators from several African countries and to screen children. Ava, a BYU student shares her experience: “I have been to Ghana before working on another public health project. I can wholeheartedly say those are some of my favorite people in the […]

Bountiful hosted their annual Virtual Christmas party on December 10, 2022. Participants were able to hear from Bountiful community coordinators around the world, test their trivia skills, enjoy live acapella music, and hear exciting news. Silent auction and prizes A silent auction was taking place during the week to raise money to help another community. […]

Have you ever attended a hunger banquet? This 1 minute video summarizes the night…  Everyone who attended had a wonderful experience at the hunger banquet on Friday, November 18 at the BYU Wilkinson Student Center in Provo, UT. A big thank you to the Fight Malnutrition Club for organizing the event. Each participant received a […]

Happy Birthday to Bob Rees, one of Bountiful’s founders. Bob has worked tirelessly since 2008 to make people aware of the plight of malnourished children. Thank you Bob for your service! Bob Rees serving in the Baltic States Mission. “My dad is as happy reading a poem as the sports page. He loves being outraged about politics, […]

Meaningful #LightTheWorld Holiday Gifting Made Easy Spanish Fork, Utah — October 4, 2022  Bountiful Children’s Foundation in its ongoing effort to end child malnutrition worldwide now offers honor gifting opportunities for the 2022 #LightTheWorld season on its newly designed website, BountifulChildren.org. Many, if not most, of the people with whom we want to celebrate the […]

by Cristie Deyro, MD Mothers from different parts of the Philippines enjoy studying and doing the activities with their children in the Home Based Learning Program, a program being piloted by Bountiful Children’s Foundation. It consists of seven health lessons on handwashing, clean water, proper waste disposal, safe food preparation, dietary intake, breastfeeding and cognitive […]

Philippines Country Coordinator, Doctor Cristina B. Deyro, MD, has shared with us that Alta Grace, the local Program Coordinator in Bayambang, Pangasinan, received recognition and a Certificate of Appreciation from the local government for her work and for Bountiful Children’s Foundation’s contributions toward fighting local child malnutrition. We can do it together! Partner with us […]

Bamitale (above) is the country coordinator who helped start screenings in Ibadan, Nigeria. Coordinators express their joy in being able to help families and children that are found to be malnourished. The smiles on their faces are priceless! Gbenga is married with 3 children. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of […]

The coordinators and volunteers in Cadiz, Philippines really went the extra mile at their last screening for malnourishment. Sister Esperanza, age 78, lets them use her yard to do the screening. She also picks nutritious moringa leaves to add to the egg-rice porridge she volunteered to prepare for the mothers and children that come (see […]

Joseph, a Liberian native, is currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will finish his mission in September and has asked for help for children in his home country of Liberia. To begin screening for malnourished children, we need to raise $6000 to sponsor a community there (approximately […]

Iloilo coordinator Wilma (far left) was happily amazed when she realized that all 5 girls moving up to the Young women organization have all been her recipients in Bountiful. From left to right: Sianna, Alexa, Princess Ann, Divine Grace and Ella. She is so grateful to be a part of both their physical and spiritual […]

Princess Mae, from Donsol, a town in Bicol region was only 2 months old when her mother stopped producing milk. At 6 months she was found to be underweight and started receiving supplements from Bountiful. It was also about this time that their whole family was taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. Princess turned 5 […]

Katelyn Louise was 2 years old when she qualified to receive supplements. During that time her mother Mazy started volunteering to assist the local coordinator with screening and distribution. Katelyn recently turned 10. She loves to play the piano, draw and edit videos. She can be depended on to take care of her little brother, […]

Bountiful is helping more children in Ghana than any other country currently, and our focus this past week has been on Ghana. Did you know that 13% of the population lives on less than USD $1.90/day? Bountiful Children is currently helping over 2,700 children with nutritional supplements and health education in Ghana. Mothers share how […]

Many volunteers in Springville, Utah have been making baby blocks for children in need of cognitive stimulation. They have been doing this for over 7 years! The last delivery of 125 blocks went to Bountiful Children coordinators from 5 Central American countries who were gathered for training in November 2021. More of the blocks will […]

Brother Geneste is a missionary in Haiti helping with the BYU Pathway program. He sees firsthand how the children in Haiti are suffering daily from lack of healthy food, so he decided to do something about it. He started screening children in several areas for malnutrition. Many families are still struggling from the effects of […]

College students at BYU Provo have started a Fight Malnutrition club on campus.  Here are some of the activities they are doing… -A hunger banquet with live music and food. – A movie night that includes watching Living On a Dollar a Day. – Assembling sensory stimulation toys for infants in the Bountiful Children program. -And […]

“On a return trip in 1983 to Ecuador, where Walker had served his church mission, he saw a woman he had baptized coughing up blood. Her tuberculosis could be cured with a $200 treatment, but she couldn’t afford it. Walker, who had spent four times that much on his airfare, considered giving her the money, […]

The BYU public health professors just visited Peru to help with malnutrition screenings and to help coordinators prepare to teach the health lessons. At first glance, the health lessons might seem to include information that most people know. Unfortunately, a lot of the information is not readily known in the developing world. The lessons include […]

Below are our highlights from 2021. You can read a more detailed report here.

We had a very busy but immensely rich immersive experience in Guatemala, screening families in churches and large homes, visiting individual families in their homes; visiting markets, gardens, civic centers; and seeing sites such as Lake Atitlan (including a boat ride across the lake to another town); and driving what seemed like several thousand kilometers.  NutriTour Participants A community […]

For several years, Bountiful Children has had a booth at the Sunstone Symposium held in Salt Lake City whenever they have had a live event. Bob Rees usually speaks in some of the classes and will mention his work with Bountiful Children. We have items for sale from the different countries along with items with […]

You can read a more detailed report here.

View photos here. “I can’t wait to go again. I can’t compare that experience to anything else I have done. It was worth every penny.” In its 12-year history, Bountiful Children, a nonprofit focused on eliminating child malnutrition, has conducted a number of Nutritours. These trips allow participants to serve Bountiful Children communities worldwide and at […]