Paul Harris began the idea of Rotary on the 23rd Feb 1905 in Chicago for friendship and fellowship among business people. The first project in 1907 was installing public toilets in Chicago. Now there are 1.2million members worldwide, and more than 34,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries. Members believe in a commitment to Service Above Self. Rotarians work to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and alleviation of poverty. Rotary volunteers help provide clean water, combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, assist at disasters, assist schools, facilitate job training, and help eradicate polio and malaria. The Rotary Foundation with funds of over US$200million (K600M) today provides US$8million a year by way of grants towards rotary activities and projects. Polio Plus is perhaps the biggest and best known Rotary Project now done in partnership with WHO and the Bill Gates Foundation. RAM, Rotary Against Malaria, a home grown PNG Project is another major and worldwide project. Disaster Recovery around the world benefits from Rotary’s Shelter Boxes.