Standing in solidarity with other ‘comfort women’ and wartime rape victims, Kim Bok-dong and Gil Won-ok, established The Butterfly Fund, in efforts to help female victims of sexual violence in armed conflicts around the world. The name, “The Butterfly Fund” has meaning. Kim Bok-dong states that the symbolic meaning behind the name is that, “We as activist would like the victims to be free from their hurtful past, like a butterfly that has just come out of its cocoon.”[8] The fund was started with money from personal donations.