Belarus Red Cross Society (BRCS) being a part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an organization with a long history. During 95 years, the BRCS has been implementing its humanitarian mission in accordance with the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality. The BRCS has an auxiliary role to the state in fulfilling humanitarian functions.
The BRCS aims at assisting the most vulnerable population groups, such as elderly, people living alone, people that lost ability to serve themselves, families with many children, single-parent and incomplete families, families with low incomes, people with limited abilities, people affected by emergency and crisis situations, homeless, ex-prisoners, people living with socially dangerous diseases, people with mental illnesses and others.