Our History
Guatemalan Red Cross (known in Spanish as CRG) is a nonprofit, community-based and voluntary institution that provides aid to populations at risk or affected by disaster.
This Institution is a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, whose purpose is to prevent and alleviate human suffering; and protect the life and health of human beings, particularly in armed conflicts and other emergencies.
Guatemalan Red Cross is recognized before the Government of the Republic of Guatemala with the legal status of a voluntary, autonomous and independent relief society with its own patrimony, and an auxiliary for the humanitarian activities of public authorities.
Based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 —the State of Guatemala takes part in both of them—, as well as the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Guatemalan Red Cross was founded on April 22, 1923.
In addition, this Institution was recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and became a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on August 15, 1923. It is duly registered on the Civil Registry of Guatemala under entry number seventy six (76), page four hundred and ninety (490) of the book forty two (42) of Legal Entities.
