Tony Blair Faith Foundation

  Today is International Women's Day, an occasion to honour women, celebrate their accomplishments, and stand in solidarity with the struggles many continue to face. Each year, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation recognises this day by highlighting powerful stories of women of faith who have inspired others in our special series: “My Female Faith Hero”. Over the next week, we will showcase guest writers’ Female Faith Heroes.

  This afternoon, Tony Blair, joined in first hand with the work of his Faith Foundation’s multi-faith malaria programme “Faiths Act in Sierra Leone”. He visited local community members in Freetown alongside Christian and Muslim faith leaders delivering simple yet life saving malaria prevention messages to families. Speaking about the power of multi-faith work, Tony Blair, said, “The people who can make this happen are those whom have authority in their local communities: Imams, Priests and Pastors, women and faith elders.

  What if one small gift to your favorite charity could become dozens, hundreds or thousands? That's the goal of Everyone Gives, an online fundraising campaign launched last week that seeks to harness the power of social media to help nonprofit groups around the world. The campaign does not have a definite end, but bonus donations will be made for top earners through March 1. So far, more than a quarter of a million dollars ($257,039) has been raised for more than 1,200 charities.

  The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, along with hundreds of charitable organisations, joined Everyone Gives for its launch yesterday, 22nd February 2012. "Everyone Gives", a revolutionary, eight-day, global giving campaign, launched in more than 60 countries around the world and promises to be the most extensive and inclusive global giving event ever attempted.

  Today, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face to Faith programme collaborated with Peace One Day on a special video-conference that brought together students in Australia, India, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Canada, UK and the USA. Face to Faith was privileged to have Jeremy Gilley, Founder of Peace One Day attend as the special guest on all four multi-point video-conferences which aims to help students think through issues of peace and conflict.

  On 16th of February, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation launched a worldwide relay campaign: “Where’s the Net?” to raise awareness about malaria prevention. Over the next five months a symbolic anti - malaria net will travel between people of different faiths across the world to spread vital messages about the devastating, yet preventable, disease which kills up to 750,000 people each year. More than twenty five “Net Bearers” from five continents in cities as far apart as California to Kathmandu have been selected to spearhead t

  In a world torn by holy wars and ethnic divides, preparing young people to address differences in faith and belief should be a no-brainer. After all, history teaches that religious intolerance and hate are often rooted in ignorance and fear. That’s why it’s disturbing, if not dangerous, that most schools in the United States and around the globe largely ignore religion, doing little or nothing to help students live in a world where religion and religious differences clearly matter. Fortunately, one foundation - the Tony Blair Faith Foundation - is daring to go where few

  8 February 2012 — In honour of UN World Interfaith Harmony Week Tony Blair, Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, participated in a question and answer session on Twitter. We had great questions from all around the world. Here is a summary of the Twitter conversation: Tony Blair: Hi, this is Tony Blair + for interfaith harmony week I’ll be answering questions from here #AskTony twitpic.com/8h9boc Thank you to all of you who have already sent in questions.