Buenaventura
Colombia population: 50,882,891 in 2022
GDP per capita (US$): $5,335 in 2020
Cost to Run Program for 1 Year: $6000
Nutritional Supplements Used:
- Bienestarina
Fact from UNICEF / WHO / World Bank:
Stunting: 149.2 million
Stunting affected an estimated 22.0 per cent or 149.2 million children under 5 globally in 2020
Source: Levels and trends in child malnutrition, 2021

Vaneza María Medina Orejuela
Community Coordinator
I have been with my husband José Junior Mosquera Palacios for 30 years. We have 3 blessings…Angie Nahomi, Junior Ferdinand, and Luis Miguel Mosquera Medina.
I started receiving help from the foundation in 2015. Two years later, they asked me to participate as Coordinator of Buenaventura. As I love to serve, I accepted immediately. I always wanted to do it but I did not have the financial means. I told my daughter this is my opportunity to serve and do something for the children of my city since there is a lot of poverty here and neglect by the government.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer and it metastasized to my brain and thanks to my Heavenly Father he has blessed me with a medical team that works hard as instruments of God in his hands and here I am. I have great support from my husband who helps me deliver the nutrients when I am in the clinic. I call the mommies and give them the training while he delivers them. As coordinator, I thank you very much for the training that I and the moms have received.
I am also very grateful to the foundation for blessing us to go to a training in Cusco in 2000. It was my first time traveling by plane. It was fun to get to know other coordinators. it was like a happiness therapy and it helped me a lot in my recovery from my illness that was in all its fury.
I thank you for making me part of the Bountiful Children’s Foundation team. Thank you for helping bless so many families who need it so much.
A thousand thanks from me and from the Mommies and Daddy’s. A big hug. God Bless you. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Bountiful's Community Coordinators
Community coordinators serve with Bountiful as volunteers. They organize other local volunteers and together conduct screenings, train families, distribute locally-purchased nutritional supplements, and follow up on infant development.
Considering A Donation?
All donations go toward identifying mothers and children in need, providing food supplements, health lessons, and other services. All donations are welcomed. Recurring monthly donations support community stability.
- $8 = nourish 1 child for a month
- $25 = nourish 3 children for a month
- $100 = nourish 1 child for a year
- $500 = nourish an average community for a month
- $6,000 = nourish a community of your choice for one year
Blanca from Colombia's Message to Donors
Bountiful's Mission
Our mission is to provide nutritional supplementation to malnourished children and pregnant/nursing mothers as well as to teach health and cognitive development skills to families in the areas we serve.