by Kurt Matthia | Apr 12, 2023 | 2023, Guatemala, News, NutriTours
A large group takes a humanitarian trip to Guatemala during Holy Week. The Heatons along with others enjoy visiting Antigua, Lake Atitlan, the Mayan ruins in Tikal and more. With more than 20 people traveling in the NutriTour, the coordinators rented a bus. Included...
by Kurt Matthia | Mar 28, 2023 | 2023, Guatemala, News, NutriTours
by Sheela, Rachel, and Kurt Matthia March 5, 2023, Sunday Our red-eye flight from Las Vegas, Nevada to Guatemala City arrived at noon. Our tour guides Gloria and Raul Rosales along with Jorge Pavlo recognized us immediately as we exited the airport’s secure area to...
by ramatthia1 | Dec 22, 2022 | 2022, Ghana, News, NutriTours
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...
by Shaela | Feb 1, 2022 | 2022, News, NutriTours, 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 to include information that most people know. Unfortunately, a lot of...
by BCF Staff | Aug 27, 2021 | 2021, Guatemala, News, NutriTours
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...
by BCF Staff | Jan 26, 2020 | 2020, News, NutriTours, Peru
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...
