Faiths Act

Faiths Act is a multi-faith global movement to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, focusing on eliminating deaths from malaria. We have supporters and volunteers in more than 130 countries organising easy, fun activities to raise awareness and funds to tackle deaths from malaria. It is spearheaded by a group of young ambassadors, the Faiths Act Fellows, from the US, India, UK and Canada. On the ground in countries like Sierra Leone, Faiths Act is establishing and supporting projects that mobilise faith communities around malaria public health messaging.
 

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation promotes respect and understanding between the major religions and makes the case for faith as a force for good in the modern world. Faith is vitally important to billions of people. Yet religious faith can also be used to divide. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is a response to these opportunities and challenges.
 

Tony Blair is the Founder and Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. He launched the Foundation to promote respect and understanding between the major religious faiths and to make the case that faith can be a force for good in the world.
 

Faith is vitally important to hundreds of millions of people. It underpins systems of thought and behaviour, and many of the world’s greatest movements for change and reform. The values of respect, justice and compassion that our great religions share have never been more relevant or important to bring people together to build a better world. For more information please visit the Learn section.
 

The Millennium Development Goals are a set of eight anti-poverty targets set out by the United Nations and agreed upon by 192 countries at the United Nations Summit in 2000. They include a commitment to ending extreme poverty and hunger and to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases by 2015. For more information please visit the Learn section.
 

Malaria is completely preventable, yet over 750,000 people die from it annually. Malaria and other preventable diseases are integrally related to education and poverty, so tackling malaria will also help reduce global poverty. We know that by coming together across the world, we can beat malaria. For more information please visit the Learn section.
 

There are numerous ways to get involved with Faiths Act. The possibilities are endless! Please visit the Act section of our website for more information on how you can get involved.
 

Faiths Act has supporters in over 130 countries around the world. Please visit the Act section of our website for more information on how you and your community can get involved. So while you can set up your own group, please remember that Faiths Act groups set up by volunteers are not formally endorsed by the Foundation and have no legal status in relation to it.
 

The Faiths Act Fellowship aims to mobilise multi-faith action on malaria by connecting outstanding young interfaith leaders with leading NGOs working towards the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For information on how you can get involved please visit the Act section.
 

Faiths Act is working with the Ministry of Health, the Interreligious Council and the Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone on a national health messaging programme. We are working with Christian, Muslim and other faith leaders and communities to save lives lost to malaria. We are not currently looking to expand this programme to other countries. You can read more about Faiths Act in Sierra Leone and malaria prevention and treatment.
 

Sierra Leone ranks amongst the worst in the world on the Human Development Index (HDI), particularly because of the extremely poor maternal and child death statistics, where the most vulnerable are dying from preventable and treatable conditions. However, Sierra Leone is a shining example of how people of different faiths can live and work harmoniously together to create a better life for all in the 21st century. Sierra Leone has an active interfaith network that is helping to re-build the country following a terrible and prolonged ten year civil war, ending in 2002. The network has already been successful in dealing with HIV/AIDS. Incorporating malaria prevention into their outreach program is the next logical step.
 

Yes. Spreading the word about the causes of malaria and how it can be prevented is incredibly important, find out all you need to know in the Learn section.
 

No. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is not a net-delivery organisation and we are thus unable to provide volunteers with nets. We mobilise people in over 130 countries to raise funds and awareness for malaria through multi-faith action and support health messaging programmes to encourage people to use bed nets correctly. For more information on bed nets please visit Malaria No More or Nothing but Nets.
 

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation works collaboratively with a wide range of organisations but does not actively seek formal partnerships. Through Faiths Act we aim to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals, communities and organisations. Please visit our Act section to find out more.
 

No. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is not a grant-giving organisation and we are unable to provide funding. For more information on what resources and materials are available please visit our Act pages.