Welcome to Eltham

Lara McKinley is the vice president of Welcome to Eltham, a local community group extending the hand of welcome to refugees soon to settle into the the neighbourhood.

Lara is a photographer, video producer and change maker with a long history of working with refugees and people seeking asylum. She was a human rights accompanier for internally displaced communities in Guatemala during the civil war in the 1990s,  covered refugee resettlement in America for the International Rescue Committee and photographed the destruction -- and reconstruction -- of Timor-Leste for a number of international aid agencies.