Freeze

By Bridget Cook
A CRANBOURNE North girl is leading an initiative to raise money for education in Cambodia – one freeze-frame at a time.
As part of Monash University’s Global Changers Program, Ayes Sudhakar, along with two Monash University friends Ben Crini and Yohan Nathan, has organised an initiative to raise funds for a revolutionising education-system initiative in Cambodia.
The three students will hold a series of eye-catching, freeze stunts across the Melbourne CBD this week.
On Friday 1 October, they are holding a massive freeze session in the morning and afternoon and it is open to the public.
Ayes, 20, said the freeze frame they have been doing involves a white board which says ‘can you read this?’
“We have about 15 to 20 people sitting in front of it frozen, as if we are in a classroom,” she said.
“It represents that most children in Cambodia are illiterate.”
She said the aim of the freeze frames was to get people to stop and ask what they are doing. People are then told about the project and how they can donate money to it.
Ayes said they had got schools to get involved as well.
She said their philosophy was to try and motivate people to give to a good cause, instead of making them to feel guilty by not giving.
“We are showing them that we are out there doing this and can have so much by doing things such as this,” she said. Ayes said they are expecting more than 140 people for the massive freeze-frame on Friday to be held along Swanston Street.