We believe that achieving individual happiness and taking action to make society better are interrelated and mutually reinforcing. Below are four suborganizations of Jungto Society founded with the aim of realizing social change.
International NGO Relief Organization
Environmental Movement
In Everyday Life
Center for Peace, Human Rights and Refugees
Contributing to South and North Koreas’ Unification
JTS is an international relief organization with the aim of fulfilling the three goals stated above. JTS operates all around world, especially in Asia, to eradicate famine, disease and illiteracy. It is an international relief organization that has been granted special consultative status by the UN ECOSOC.
JTS International, with headquarters in Korea, has 4 branch offices. JTS Korea and JTS America are in charge of fundraising, while JTS India and JTS Philippines conducts development projects in cooperation with local communities. Since 1999, JTS has carried out relief activities in close cooperation with its branch offices abroad, dispatching field officers to countries around the world that have been hit by disasters. We are a 100% volunteer-operated organization.
97% of your donations go directly to the needy.
Jungto Society is a community of engaged practitioners who seek to free themselves of suffering in their daily lives and to make the world a better place.
Life is like embroidery.
No matter what you are experiencing at this very moment, it is a part of your precious life. Not a single second of life is a waste. No matter how repetitive it may look, nothing is ever the same. This is the same as embroidering several flowers. Each one is different.
© 2021 Jungto Society - A Community of Practitioners Guided By Ven. Pomnyun Sunim.