Faiths Act

Sana Rahim, a 22 year old Muslim and Clint Fluker, a 26 year old Christian have been working tirelessly since August 2011 at MedShare, in Atlanta, GA, as an interfaith pair for our Fellowship program. They raised over the $22,000 required to ship critical medical supplies half way across the world.

Ray Chambers, the UN Special Envoy for Malaria has joined Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation’s worldwide campaign: “Where’s the Net?”. Since February, a symbolic anti-malaria net has been travelling in a relay between people of different faiths across the world to raise awareness about malaria prevention. Despite being entirely preventable, malaria still kills 750, 000 people each year. The net began its journey in Sierra Leone, where a third of children who die under the age of five are killed by malaria.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s groundbreaking interfaith programme to tackle malaria in Sierra Leone has reached 100,000 homes and over 600 thousand individuals. Sierra Leone has only 102 medics but a huge network of churches and mosques.

A mosquito net currently on a worldwide tour is about to visit Rochdale as part of the Where’s The Net? malaria awareness campaign run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Hard Rock Cafe, in collaboration with Tony Blair Faith Foundation, held a fashion show for awareness about a waterborne disease. Ila Sankrityayan spoke to students of the JD Institute of Fashion Technology who designed garments from white and blue bednets on World Malaria Day The fashion show began the usual way, with lights and sound effects. Models were walking the ramp at Hard Rock Cafe, showcasing designer wear. Just one thing was unusual. The material used was mosquito net. Be it in the spiral net dress. Or a net outfit that had wings fixed wings to it.

This article was orginally published in the Ottawa Citizen. OTTAWA — The tangled blue mosquito net has travelled to more than 26 countries, been held by imams, pastors and rabbis, toured synagogues and university campuses — but now it sits in MP Patrick Brown’s office in preparation for today, World Malaria Day. The net was brought to Ottawa by a group of six Canadian youth representing the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the “Where’s The Net?” campaign.

The significance of World Malaria Day on 25th April is likely to be different if you live in London or Freetown. For those who live in Sierra Leone it will be a reminder again that malaria is the number one killer of young children. In the UK there may not even be the memory that in the Kent marshes malaria killed whole families in the 18th century.  It may not seem relevant. But it is. The names on gravestones in Kent, like the names of children buried in Sierra Leone, each represent a tragic waste of a life.

The globally recognised house of music and fashion memorabilia, and of course beer, Hard Rock Café, New Delhi plays its CSR part by joining hands with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to kick start a campaign called ‘The City is Ours’ with a fashion show. The campaign which aims to raise awareness about the health and sanitation issues in Savda Ghera, a slum resettlement colony in Delhi saw a fashion show being organised at the café in collaboration with designers from the J.D Institute – Prachi Rastogi, Priyanka, Ankita, Vaibhav Joshi garments constructed fro