Paul Pholeros Foundation
The Paul Pholeros Foundation was established in 2018 to honour the life and work of Australian architect and humanitarian Paul Pholeros. Paul dedicated much of his life to improving the housing and environmental conditions of Indigenous people in Australia and disadvantaged communities in other countries.
The Foundation continues his legacy through investment in the people who can bring about real change and who will raise sanitation and environmental living conditions in communities.
The PPF’s initial focus was to provide an annual PPF Fellowship for an Australian plumbing team to work alongside local counterparts on a sanitation project in Nepal.
The 2019 Fellowship team worked on the construction of a village toilet and handwashing block which the villagers dedicated to the memory of Paul Sir.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the PPF Fellowship was put on hold until 2023 after the global situation stabilised.
In the interim the PPF shifted to new activities including a competition to design a portable handwashing unit in for Nepal and the launch of the Paul Pholeros Architecture Scholarship.