71岁的黎巴嫩裔澳大利亚社工保罗·穆萨在悉尼帕拉马塔协调运营Meals Plus项目，这是隶属于Parramatta Mission的外展慈善服务 [1]。穆萨和志愿者团队每天凌晨3点30分抵达教堂办公室，为数百名无家可归者及困难群众提供早餐和午餐 [1]。在2025年，穆萨因其工作获颁澳大利亚勋章 [1]。
穆萨改革了项目的资金模式，取消了曾经的收费制度——早餐1澳元、午餐3澳元——转而提供完全免费的餐饮服务 [1]。他建立了一个社区中心枢纽，整合了出生死亡婚姻登记、Centrelink、Service NSW和Housing等多个政府部门的服务，帮助困难人群获得住房、身份证件和银行账户等必要服务，重建生活 [1]。穆萨表示，"人们并非选择无家可归，而是因为对系统缺乏信心而陷入无家可归" [1]。
根据街道计数数据，帕拉马塔地区去年有222人露宿街头，虽较十年前的156人有所增加，但低于2024年达到的291人峰值 [1]。穆萨的工作赢得了他所帮助的群体的深厚信任，59岁的Julie Sutherland将他视为"继父"，穆萨被列为她的法定关系人 [1]。
Paul Moussa, a 71-year-old Lebanese-Australian social worker, coordinates Meals Plus, an outreach charity program of Parramatta Mission, providing free meals and social support to hundreds of vulnerable people in Parramatta, a commercial district in western Sydney [1]. Moussa and his volunteer team arrive at Leigh Memorial Church at 3:30 a.m. each morning to distribute breakfast and lunch to community members [1].
Beyond meal provision, Moussa has established a community hub that integrates multiple government services—including birth, death, and marriage registration, Centrelink, Service NSW, and Housing assistance—creating a single point of access for clients to obtain essential documents, bank accounts, and accommodation support [1]. Moussa abandoned a previous paid model where breakfast cost one Australian dollar and lunch three dollars, moving instead to a completely free system that removes financial barriers to assistance [1].
The scale of homelessness in the area underscores the importance of such work: street counts documented 222 people sleeping rough in the region last year, up from 156 a decade earlier, though lower than the 2024 peak of 291 [1]. Reflecting his impact, Moussa received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2025 [1].
"People don't choose to be homeless, but they choose homelessness because they have no confidence in the system," Moussa has stated [1]. One beneficiary, 59-year-old Julie Sutherland, credits Moussa as her "stepfather," even naming him as her legal next of kin [1].