JFCW Activities & Sponsorship

Jessie Jeong-yeon Park wrote a children’s storybook on a comfort woman issue to help children understand and remember there had been a tragic history regarding a human-right-issue during the World War 2.

Justice for Comfort Women member, Jessie Jeong-yeon Park visited the House of Sharing and spent time with the surviving comfort women.

From the House of Sharing, Mr.Shin-kwon Ahn & a surviving comfort woman, Il-chool Kang met with the Congress woman, Grace Meng & the Congressman, Charles Levine of New York, presenting the book, ‘Touch-Me-Nots’.

Justice for Comfort Women Club has been sending out the book, ‘Touch-Me-Not’ to the public schools, politicians & intellectual communities in the U.S. and other countries to raise the awareness on the comfort women issue.

California Congressman, Mr. Mike Honda endorses the book.

Sponsored by the Ministry of Gender Equality & Family and Victim’s Human Rights Commission of Korea, Justice for Comfort Women published the book, ‘Touch-Me-Nots’ with the House of Sharing.

The book, ‘Touch-Me-Not’ will be delivered to schools and human rights institutions so that surviving comfort women can be able to share their true painful stories and get proper apology from the Japanese government who still denies the history.

Justice for Comfort Women members visits ‘House of Sharing’ regularly,  doing the best to help and attend the survivors from the history..

Justice for Comfort Women Club has been awarded as Distinguished State Honoree at The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards 2015 for club’s endeavor to spread ‘Comfort Women issues’ over the world.

Justice for Comfort Women’s activity was recognized by the nation’s biggest leading English Newspaper, ‘The Korea Times’.

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/people/2014/09/178_164469.html

My name is ‘Kim Bok-soon’ dance performance at the National Theater in Seoul, S.Korea

‘Justice for comfort women’ members actively promoted the dance performance of ‘My name is Kim Bok-soon’, the story of a comfort woman, by raising money for the ticket purchases. Also, during the performance day, the members exhibited the ‘comfort women’ themed paintings at the lobby of the National theater to promote awareness for the comfort women issue to the general public.

‘Justice for Comfort women’ members are the Boards and staff members of a volunteering organization, ‘Art & Love’. ‘Art & Love’ had an exhibition of its 143 members to promote the awareness of reality of a war and its victims & survivors.

Members (Dongho Kim & Alberta Yoo) presented the comfort women issue at the 2nd W-WSN Conference.

‘Justice for Comfort Women’ members donated art talents to help out the WTIT( World Transfer of Information & Technology) charity fund raising events to help out the lesser fortunate community in South East Asia.

‘The House of Sharing’ and ‘Justice of Comfort Women’ connected as one to promote the issue of comfort women before it is too late.

Every Wednesday, a rally is held for an hour in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, asking for the recognizing the rights of comfort women.

Members sold awareness bracelets to raise funds.