Grandma's House - Museum of Peace and Women’s Human Rights Introduction
A nearly hundred-year-old building, a 25-year-long human rights movement, and a place that gathers the vitality of women. The Awakening Foundation has been conducting investigations into Taiwanese "comfort women" and pursuing compensation actions against Japan since 1992. Over the past 25 years, they have accompanied and cared for the grandmothers, preserving 5,042 pieces of related video, books, and 730 artifacts. After 12 years of preparation and effort, "Grandma's Home: Museum of Peace and Women’s Human Rights" was officially established on December 10, 2016, after its unveiling on March 8. It contains the life stories of 59 Taiwanese "comfort women" grandmothers forged through suffering. It is Taiwan's first multifunctional social education base that is founded on the "comfort women" human rights movement and focuses on contemporary women's human rights issues and women's empowerment. "Grandma's Home" remembers history, continues to pay attention to contemporary women's human rights, and aims to transcend life’s traumas, inspire the strength to move forward, and turn historical scars into a cornerstone of peace, achieving a future of respect, equality, and non-violence.
