Handwash unit prototype near complete

December 13th, 2021

Bishnu our PPF Nepal program coordinator has been working with Triratna, carpenter extraordinaire, and metal fabricators to get the portable handwashing unit prototype close to completion. It’s been a long slow process, taking into account Nepal’s lengthy COVID lockdowns which were closely followed by festivals and major national public holidays. Bishnu had to hunt hard […]

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PPF Newsletter 2021

August 23rd, 2021

Welcome to the latest newsletter of the Paul Pholeros Foundation.  While it’s been a crazy couple of years, the PPF has been quietly plugging away.  As with so many organisations the PPF’s activities have been impacted by the global COVID pandemic, forcing us to put some things on hold and making time to create new […]

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Taylor Springthorpe receives PPF Award Certificate

May 11th, 2021

Taylor Springthorpe receives her PPF Award Certificate for winning the Nepal 2020 Portable Handwashing Unit Design Challenge. Taylor has just completed the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) at the University of Newcastle and is taking a year out from her studies before returning to do the Master of Architecture. While working in an architectural office, she […]

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