South American Posts
Gratitude and farewell to Brad Walker
We would like to wish a heartfelt thank you to an individual whose dedication has made a profound impact on the lives of malnourished children around the globe. As Brad Walker, one of the visionary...
Spotlight: Peruvian Children
Nearly 1000 malnourished Peruvian children and pregnant/nursing mothers in 23 communities are being helped with malnutrition screenings, university-developed health lessons. nutritional supplements,...
The children you are helping
Cristie Deyro, M.D., Bountiful's regional coordinator for Asia recently shared this encouragement with local coordinators in the Philippines. “I love what President Russell M. Nelson said at the...
Spotlight: Bolivia
Our spotlight is on the country of Bolivia. Bountiful began screening children for malnutrition in Bolivia in 2014. We are currently helping eight communities (one that has been adopted) and over...
BYU Public Health Team In Peru
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...
Peru NutriTour Brings Cognitive Stimulation Toys
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...
Coordinator Training in Paraguay
The BYU team along with two of BCF’s local coordinators. In January, myself (Adrian Glover) and fellow BYU students Brenden Garrett, Westin Wong and McKay Rentz along with professors Josh West, Ben...
Malnutrition in Viru, Peru
he following article was originally published in the Meridian Magazine here. Helping Malnourished Latter-day Saint Children in Peru Robert A. Rees, Vice President and Co-Founder of the Bountiful...
Thank you letters from Bolivia
"Today I am very happy that I have the opportunity to thank you for the great help you gave me so that my little Violet can overcome the difficulties that she had with her growth. With satisfaction...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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....