Faiths Act

In 2000, the world's governments set eight goals to tackle the scandal of global poverty before 2015. One of these includes the target of eliminating deaths from malaria. But neither this, nor any of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be achieved by the 2015 deadline, without the momentum of a global movement behind it. We need to awaken the world's conscience again.

Faith groups have been in the forefront of winning public and political support for such ambitious action. They are also playing a major role in delivering progress on the ground. But with their global reach, they could even achieve more by acting together. Our ambition is that, across the world and for the MDGs, Faiths Act.

Despite the fact that malaria is entirely preventable, it is shockingly the most devastating global health crisis in the world today, producing 500 million cases and up to a million deaths each year, with 90% of malaria-related deaths now occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is a challenge that we know how to and can beat. Even better, beating malaria will have a reverberating impact on several other urgent world threats.

Faiths Act Together

Join Faiths Act Together volunteers already in 27 different countries - most of whom are taking part in multi-faith activities for the first time. All you need to do is take two simple steps. Our website contains step-by-step guides and all the resources you need to make a get involved and make a difference.

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Faiths Act Fellowship

The Faiths Act Fellowship is bringing together a group of outstanding young leaders aged 18-25 drawn from the different faiths from the US, UK, and Canada to embark on a 10 month journey of interfaith service. These young people, inspired by their faith traditions, will become the change-makers for the next generation.

Training begins with a 2-month intensive initiative that includes fieldwork with primary health care partners fighting deaths from malaria in Africa. Fellows will return to their home countries for 8 months to mobilize thousands of young people of faith to promote the Millennium Development Goals and spearhead the Faiths Act Together campaign.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has launched this initiative in conjunction with the Interfaith Youth Core.

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Faiths Act in Africa

Faith communities in Africa are already playing a significant role in health care and malaria prevention. The importance of faith communities, their human capital, resources and infrastructure, is without doubt. They can reach parts of society currently inaccessible to governments to help eliminate up to one million preventable malaria deaths occurring around the world - most of them on the African continent. But the potential of faith communities is not yet fully realised.

The role of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation in Africa is to facilitate this contribution to the fight against malaria in a variety of ways. These include dissemination and scaling up of best practice in primary health care training and bed-net distribution, communications and health education, encouraging North-South transfers of resources and learning between and within faith communities, thev creation of networks of religious leaders committed to eradication of malaria deaths and, with partner organisations, brokering greater integration into national anti-malaria plans and participation in planning at an early stage.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation intends to work in partnerships with other organisations in order to make this happen. For example, the Foundation is partnering with the Centre for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA) in Washington to support the creation of an Inter-Religious Coordinating Mechanism against Malaria in Nigeria. The Foundation is also supporting Project Muso in Bamako, a multi-faith primary health care project in Mali with a focus on malaria prevention, a pioneering exemplar of the methodology and vision that TBFF is trying to promote. The Foundation will continue to work with these organisations and other partners in order to help eliminate deaths from malaria.