A team of young people from Vanuatu and New Caledonia have created a mural as part of the World Conference on Health Promotion being held in Rotorua.
Cameras were snapping and many selfies were taken as people admired a mural being created by youth by the Energy Events Centre.
The young people were brought over to Rotorua from Vanuatu by Pacific Community's 'Wake Up!' initiative as a part of the World Conference on Health Promotion which washeld in Rotorua earlier this week.
Wake Up! encourages young people to get involved and create non-communicable disease (NCDs) prevention messages to reach people under 30.
Across three days youth get involved in training workshops to learn the basics about NCDs and learn about communication techniques.
They take this knowledge home and create communications campaigns with support from professional mentors.
Solene Bertrand-Protat, Pacific Community non-communicable diseases adviser, says two years ago youth were asked to shoot a video to get the message out and this year youth were asked to create graffiti art.
Pacific Community selected the four-person Vanuatu graffiti art team to come to the conference, along with one youth from New Caledonia as a collaboration.
The team created the mural on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it portrays both healthy and bad habits, in order to raise awareness of how people's current habits can impact their health later on.
