Our Worldwide Blog
Peru Christmas NutriTour
Cusco Screening and Christmas Party. Just before Christmas, BCF led a Nutritour to Peru. The Nutritour began in Lima and ended in Cusco. Here is a summary from Angela Johnson on her experience as...
Hunger Banquet in Lehi Utah
A fun, touching, and powerful experience for the whole family! What kind of food do the hungry in poor countries eat? What do they do for work? What is it like to be hungry through no choice of your...
Guatemala NutriTour Group Builds a Home
Families in El Codo receiving monthly supply of supplements. From July 8-17th, the Bountiful Children's Foundation hosted a Nutritour to Guatemala. Here are some thoughts from one of the...
A Volunteer’s Perspective: Bolivia Screening
Unnamed Bolivian mother and child, mother in traditional Bolivian aguayo and cholita garbKate Strickling with screening participant at weighing station BLOG POST BY KATE STRICKLING, MPH student at...
Thank You Letters from Huancayo, Peru
Manta, Ecuador Earthquake
Juan Cevallos/AFP/Getty Images On April 16, 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the northern coast of Ecuador and was followed by large aftershocks. Hundreds of people lost their lives as a result,...
Exciting New Projects
By Co-founder Dr. Polly Sheffield This is an exciting time for the Bountiful Children’s Foundation. Thanks to generous donors, we have continued to expand our outreach and are now helping...
Hunger Banquet in American Fork, Utah
A hunger banquet was held at American Heritage School. The student government helped provide the food to give to those attending. There were 3 classes representing the people of the world. The...
Canadian Charity Helps in Guatemala
By Deanna Sykes, Foundation for Rebuilding Lives Reflections on Bountiful's Early Days In June 2014, members of a Canadian registered charity, The Foundation for Rebuilding Lives, went to Guatemala...
Meet Natividad: South America Regional Coordinator
Natividad dressed in traditional Peruvian costume My name is Natividad Samochuallpa and I'm a teacher by profession. I studied education at a prestigious institution in my city following a...
Feliz Navidad from Colombia
"'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...
Donor Appreciation Diner in Salt Lake
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...
Screenings Begin in Brazil
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...
Expanding Our Reach
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...
Feed My Lambs
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...
First NutriTour to Cambodia
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...
BYU Interns Screen Children in Peru
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...
Peru NutriTour
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...
New Program in San Felipe Guatemala
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...
Malnutrition in Kiribati
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...
Philippines NutriTour
Local coordinator, Eleanor Roberto, welcoming the BCF recipients and family membersFood supplements sorted, labeled, and ready for distributionLocal coordinator, Eleanor Roberto, training and giving...
Hunger Banquet in Provo Utah
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...
Internship With Bountiful Children
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...
NutriTour to Colombia 2014
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...
Zimbabwe and Mozambique NutriTour
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...
BCF Screens Children in the Philippines
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...
“Our Beloved Children” Documentary
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,...
First Hunger Banquet & Coordinator Tour
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,...
Bountiful Coordinator Reunites with Missionary
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...
BYU Professors Visit Peru
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....