About Faiths Act Fellows
The Faiths Act Fellowship is a year-long, paid international Fellowship that brings together exceptional future leaders inspired by faith to serve as interfaith ambassadors for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
34 Faiths Act Fellows from the US, Canada, India, the UK and Sierra Leone are building partnerships across faith lines in their local communities to show the world how faith can be a positive global force in the 21st century.
Their work
Following an intensive month long training period in London, the 34 Faiths Act Fellows are placed in pairs within faith and development based host organisations in their home countries. The host organisations provide the Fellows with the infrastructure and networks that enable them to build grassroots multi-faith action on malaria and the MDGs. And in Sierra Leone, the Fellows will be supporting and mobilising projects that bring faith communities together around actual malaria prevention work in conjunction with national malaria plans.
This year’s Fellows represent Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Quaker traditions and they are on the lookout for people committed to using multi-faith action to defeat malaria. Please help join the Fellows in their campaign.
The history and impact of the Fellowship
The Fellowship was launched in August 2009, and the inaugural Faiths Act Fellows achieved astounding success in advancing the fight against malaria and promoting multi-faith action:
- Together, they raised over £100,000 which was personally matched by Tony Blair (total funds over £200,000). This was enough to provide 35,000 families with a long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed net and the education required to use it.
- Fellows directly reached over 40,000 people about the importance and urgency of multi-faith action to end malaria deaths, and hosted 250 events attended by over 14,000 people.
- Over 250 faith and community leaders committed to taking the Faiths Act movement forward.
- A survey of volunteers showed that 60% had little or no experience with multi-faith initiatives before the being inspired by the Fellows. Yet 93% said it was now very or most likely that they would continue working to promote multi-faith action.
Read more about the Fellows success in our Faiths Act Fellowship 2009-2010 Inaugural Year Report and check out our Fellows Alumni page to see where they are now.
