Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.  In over 165 countries throughout the world, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary Clubs. For administration purposes these clubs are divided into 529 Rotary Districts throughout the world. District 9450 administers 40 clubs throughout the northern parts of Perth and the northern parts of the State of Western Australia.

The Rotary Clubs of Belmont, Thornlie, Margaret River and Gosnells have provided funds to the Women and Infants Research Foundation for the establishment of the first modern human milk bank in Australia.

The human milk bank, now named the Perron Rotary Express Milk Bank (PREM Bank), aims to optimise the nourishment of Western Australian pre-term and ill infants who require more breast milk than their mothers can provide.

The PREM Bank will screen milk donors, then collect and store milk which will be pasteurised and made available to pre-term and ill very low birth weight babies.

Following the establishment of a conventional milk bank, the aim is to develop new technology (Ultra-filtration) for the concentration of human milk protein. This will allow the fortification of human milk, with human milk derived protein, to meet the higher nutritional demands of pre-term babies.