Abstract
The humanitarian situation in Syria has reached catastrophic proportions, according to the United Nations. The number of refugees and displaced persons has exceeded six million, more than a quarter of the country's total population.
With no safe access to the interior of the country for their staff, foreign humanitarian organizations have not sought to identify local aid networks inside the country that distribute aid without discrimination, and have not sought to go through them. Yet these networks are numerous and very active. It is thanks to them that many regions receive the basic necessities to avoid real famine, but they are sorely lacking in resources, while they hear of hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on aid by various countries. Faced with the demand for transparency imposed on them, Syrians would be entitled to call the international community to account for the allocation and distribution of funds declared as being allocated to Syria.
Since the regime cut off state services in the early months of the uprising, the movement's coordinating groups on the ground have been ingeniously organizing themselves around committees, groups of wise men and local councils. It is visible in the so-called liberated regions, underground in areas where regime forces still have a presence. This is a society that is organizing itself against the state and trying to protect itself from it.
