A shipment of 530 tons of flour sent by civic groups in Seoul arrived in North Korea on Thursday morning as part of a humanitarian assistance project to help the North cope with recent flood damage.

One-hundred-30 tons of flour sent by the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation arrived in the North’s border city of Gaeseong and Baecheon County in South Hwanghae Province via an overland route linking Seoul and Sinuiju.

Four-hundred tons of flour from the Korean Sharing Movement, the Join Together Society (JTS) and Gyeonggi Province were also delivered to North Korea via the overland route Thursday.

Some 200 tons of rice sent by a different civic organization will arrive in Sinuiju on Friday.

The Unification Ministry said that as of Tuesday, it has approved eight plans set up by five civic organizations to send two-point-two billion won worth of relief assistance to North Korean flood victims.