by Kurt Matthia | Jun 28, 2023 | 2023, Peru, Spotlights
Nearly 1000 malnourished Peruvian children and pregnant/nursing mothers in 23 communities are being helped with malnutrition screenings, university-developed health lessons. nutritional supplements, and regular followup. While the well-known ruins of Macchu Picchu may...
by amaraineh | Jun 17, 2023 | 2023, Guatemala, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone
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 April General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
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 | 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...
by BCF Staff | Dec 29, 2017 | 2017, News, 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 Children’s Foundation Malnutrition in the Viru District In previous...
by BCF Staff | Jan 26, 2017 | 2017, News, NT-Per-2016C, NutriTours, Peru
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 Nutritour participant with two of her children: How grateful I am that...
