The National Society of the Guatemalan Red Cross (CRG) is a non-profit, social interest and voluntary institution that provides assistance to the population that is at risk or in disaster. It is part of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, whose purpose is to prevent and alleviate human suffering; protect the life and health of the human person, particularly in times of armed conflict and in other emergency situations.

The Guatemalan Red Cross is recognized before the Legal Entity by the Government of the Republic of Guatemala, as a voluntary, autonomous, independent relief society with its own assets and auxiliary to the public authorities in their humanitarian activities.

Founded on April 22, 1923; it is constituted in accordance with the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its additional protocols of 1977, of which the State of Guatemala is a party, as well as with the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Guatemalan Red Cross was recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on August 15, 1923, is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as of the same date . Guatemalan Red Cross is duly registered in the Civil Registry of Guatemala, under the number of departure seventy-six (76), folio four hundred and ninety (490) of the book forty-two (42) of Legal Entities.

The Headquarters facilities of the Guatemalan Red Cross are located in Guatemala City and currently has 21 Delegations nationwide.