Eva May Foundation

We are based in Mulwala and operate an Opportunity Shop, which is used to fund local community projects and education projects in Myanmar and Uganda.

Approximately 15 volunteers work on a roster system at the second-hand shop in Mulwala. Some volunteers work in the shop as sales assistants, others work as sorters and cleaners inside the shop, and outside some volunteers look after the garden and lawn and sort larger items into storage areas.

The shop is located at 159 Melbourne Street, Mulwala and is directly opposite the Mulwala Ski Club.

Our opening hours are: Wednesday to Friday – 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and Saturday – 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Over the past three years, we have built a primary school in Uganda – The Eva May Nursery and Primary School, Galiraya, Uganda. It is operational with P1 to P5 classes. It is mostly finished, except for two classrooms currently under construction. We have 350 students registered. Our students are mainly children who, before the school was built, would not usually have been able to obtain an education. So, the support of the local Yarrawonga/Mulwala community is achieving incredible results for children in this generally poor country and also for our more modest project in Myanmar.

We don’t forget the local community and provide funds for projects and charities in our local area. These include a new hospital bed for the Warrina Hostel Accommodation in Yarrawonga, a disabled playground ride at Purtle Park, Yarrawonga, a new conveyor toaster for the local Yarrawonga primary school, and funds for a group that makes turbans for cancer patients. We recently donated $2,000 to the local Lions Club to assist their fundraising work to donate to the Australian Lions Children’s Cancer Research Foundation. In March 2025, we donated $6,500 to the Yarrawonga branch of Ambulance Victoria to purchase much-needed training equipment.

We try to balance our overseas (Myanmar and Africa) projects with local area funding help.

Our primary purposes are: Health and education.

If you have some quality goods you wish to donate, please drop them off. Thank you.

Please leave only quality goods and don’t dump rubbish as we have to pay a considerable amount of money to dump unsaleable items.

In 1992 Glenys Davis started working as a volunteer with Graceworks, a non-denominational community development organisation that undertakes community projects in Myanmar. After working with this organisation for quite a few years she felt the need to provide more grassroots help in Myanmar and registered the Eva May Foundation.

The old Eva May Foundation ‘garage sale’ house in Melbourne Street, Mulwala will have been a familiar sight to Mulwala/Yarrawonga locals and this business was instrumental in providing funds for education, medical, housing, freshwater and fencing projects in Myanmar since 2010. The foundation has completed projects in all these areas and currently has an ongoing education project in Yangon.

With the opening of the new ‘op shop’ at 159 Melbourne Street, Mulwala, Glenys and her loyal volunteers are now injecting a major portion of available funds into local community projects as well as continuing our education project in Myanmar and a new school we have built in Uganda.