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 140 countries organising activities to raise awareness and funds to tackle deaths from malaria. On the ground in countries like Sierra Leone, Faiths Act is establishing and supporting projects that mobilise faith communities around malaria public health messaging.

 

Faiths Act is also committed to helping volunteers around the world get involved with projects that demonstrate how faith can be a force for good. In our Faith and Globalisation Initiative, students and scholars examine topics of policy and examine what faith communities have to add to the debate on religious minorities, religious freedom, and women in faith. Our schools programme, Face to Faith, helps improve young people's religious literacy and offers them ways show how faith can be a force for good in their own communities. Faith Shorts, our global film competition, offers young people the chance to tell the world how their faith inspires them. Whether through helping with research for the Faith and Globalisation Initiative or to sponsoring a Face to Faith school, or event making a film, people can get involved in many ways.
 

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 each year. Malaria and other preventable diseases are integrally related to education and poverty, so tackling malaria will ultimately 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 140 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 brought together 60 individuals of different faiths to work together to change interfaith between 2010-2012. Their work contributed to interfaith around the world. Explore some of their achievements and see how you can be inspired to do the same.
 

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. 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 140 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.
 

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 Act pages.