The Faiths Act campaign of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation empowers people of all faiths and none around the globe to come together and acheive the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, especially the end of deaths due to malaria. For 2011-2012, 34 religiously diverse young leaders from the US, UK, India, Canada, and Sierra Leone have embarked together on a year-long journey of interfaith service. These Faiths Act Fellows will work in their home countries to mobilize young people of faith to raise awareness and resources to promote the Millennium Development Goals 5 and 6 - improving maternal health and combatting preventable disease. They will focus on fighting deaths due to malaria.

Halting and reversing the spread of Malaria is one of today’s most urgent moral challenges. 500 million people contract the disease each year and one million die from it. The vast majority of malaria's victims are African children under the age of five. Yet, malaria is preventable and treatable. Intervention is as simple as providing bed nets that protect sleeping families. Progress in the fight against deaths due to malaria will speed our collective success toward achieving all the Millennium Development Goals.