“‘What you do unto one of my little ones you do unto me.’ May peace, love, and happiness fill your hearts.  From Adam and Juliana. Thank you for everything.”
“Thank you very much Bountiful Children’s”
“Thank you for the beautiful work that you did with so much love. We wish you the best gifts this Christmas and always. Thank you!”

This year we hosted a dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Temple Square for our donors in the Salt Lake City area. At this dinner we had a panel of BYU professors, BCF Board Members/Founders, and a handful of our country coordinators. We also had live entertainment, pictures on display from our programs around the […]

Amazon River, Manaus, Brazil By Tammy Reavis In July and August 2015 my husband and I, as US Supervisors for Brazil, had the opportunity to begin screenings there. We screened ten stakes across four cities in the north: Manaus, Belem, Fortaleza, and Natal. The most time consuming part of the process was making phone calls […]

By Brad Walker, MD and Bountiful Children’s Foundation Chairman of the Board We are pleased to announce that we have expanded from 120 to 180 stakes in the last 6 months, and are now caring for about 10,000 children (50% LDS) in Africa (10 stakes), Philippines (30 stakes), South America (70 stakes), Central America (60 […]

By Robert A. Rees In his 2014 General Conference address, “Are We Not All Beggars,” possibly the most powerful address of his apostleship, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland reminds us that in announcing the focus of his ministry, Jesus proclaimed, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the […]

This year was the first NutriTour BCF hosted to Cambodia. Participants traveled to Cambodia, and for ten days they were able to take part in multiple screenings, perform service at a local orphanage in Phnom Penh, visit museums, tour a silk factory in Siem Reap, and enjoy the beautiful temples of Angkor Wat. Here are […]

From Anna Gregory: The first screening was overwhelming. I am here with a baby of my own, who is very big, healthy, and chubby. I could tell that these mothers would do anything to have been able to give their babies what I have been able to give mine. They were here because they needed help. Many of […]

The Bountiful Children’s Foundation recently hosted a NutriTour trip to Peru. A single mother took her three children with her and was able to crowd-fund nearly her entire trip. This is what she wrote to those who helped sponsor her: “We wanted to Thank YOU for believing in our mission/cause, and trusting in us. We […]

One Month Before Screening: Nestled in the foothills and mountains southwest of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, lies San Felipe and a number of smaller villages that make up the San Felipe stake. The stake was adopted by a ward in East Millcreek, near Salt Lake City, Utah – 2700 miles to the northwest. The Bountiful Children’s Foundation […]

By Robert Rees Most readers have probably never heard of the nation of Kiribati (pronounced Kirr-i-bas), and yet it has one of the highest percentages of Latter-day Saints in the world (between 16%-17%). It is also one of the most beautiful, remote and endangered nations in the world–perhaps the most vulnerable in relation to climate change.  In fact, Kiribati […]

Local coordinator, Eleanor Roberto, welcoming the BCF recipients and family members Food supplements sorted, labeled, and ready for distribution Local coordinator, Eleanor Roberto, training and giving healthy eating tips Moringa – the highly nutritional tree grown locally A visiting BCF volunteer sharing information about balanced nutrition A visiting BCF volunteer sharing information about balanced nutrition […]

On September 29, 2014, the Bountiful Children’s Foundation held its second annual Hunger Banquet at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah. The event was successful, with 325 guests in attendance and a significant amount of donations raised. Dinner was provided for the guests based on the ticket they drew as they entered the […]

I get to help start nutrition projects for the Bountiful Children’s Foundation all throughout western South America, which sounds a lot harder than it really is. In reality the whole process is pretty simple. I, or someone from the foundation, call a stake president (ecclesiastical leader) and ask if we can weigh and measure the […]

Colombia!(Field report of the Liahona Children’s Foundation’s work, July 14-25, 2014) Tuesday, July 15. Left LA for Bogota via Aero-Mexico with my grandson, Emmett Rees. Wednesday, July 16. We caught an early afternoon flight to Popayan where we were met by Sean McClellan, a BYU student volunteer who has been working for Foundation this summer […]

Zimbabwe Screening: Harare March 21, 2014 Our goal was to cover the entire country of Zimbabwe. Luckily, most of the stakes and districts lie on the highway running southwest from Harare to Buluwayo. We started our journey by flying from Johannesburg, South Africa to Harare. The flight was short. I was amazed at how beautiful […]

Over Thanksgiving, the Bountiful Children’s Foundation visited the central Philippines to screen children for malnutrition in five stakes and districts on Bohol and Cebu islands. Bohol island was recently devastated by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and many homes are still destroyed or damaged and power may not be restored for many more months. The northern […]

BCF has Australian documentary filmmaker Ben King of Oxigeno Film + Television to thank for his dedication and talent in filming and producing a series of videos portraying the foundation’s work, with the most recent release being the 13 ½ minute documentary:  Our Beloved Children. King traveled to Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru and Cambodia to artfully film […]

Nearly 200 people attended BCF’s first Hunger Banquet held in Lindon, Utah on September 30, 2013. Guests were randomly chosen to feast at fancy tables where they were served a multi-course dinner, or to fill rows of chairs where they could serve themselves a dinner of beans and rice. The majority of participants, however, were […]

Thirty-seven years ago while serving as a missionary in Otavalo, Ecuador, I had the distinct impression that a great missionary work was about to proceed among the Quechua-speaking natives living in the hills surrounding the town. However, when I met with the mission president at a zone conference a short time later he informed me […]

On behalf of Bountiful Children’s Foundation, a cadre of Brigham Young University professors serving as foundation consultants in the field of public health traveled to Peru on August 19 – 25, 2013. The team was composed of Professors Benjamin Crookston, Joshua West and Cougar Hall. The team of professors and BCF Board Members Alberto Puertas […]

Tuesday, June 25 Arrived at 11:00 last night, to the hotel, run this morning in Guatemala City (terrible pollution), picked up at the temple at 1:00, four hour trip through incredible scenery, mountains, lakes, volcanos, etc. At Lake Atitlan this evening, visited our interns who were helping a family build an indoor cooking space (made […]