The mission of the Polish Red Cross is to prevent human suffering and alleviate their effects and to protect human dignity, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, gender, religious or political beliefs.

The Polish Red Cross is an organization associated in the largest worldwide humanitarian movement, one of the oldest in the history of mankind. Its constituent parts are international ones: the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) and the national associations of the Red Cross or Red Crescent.