South Korean civic aid organizations have begun sending medical and nutritional aid to North Korea on Wednesday.
 
The Korea Association of People Sharing Love said it will send 20-thousand pieces of bread to orphanages, day care centers and kindergartens in Sinuiju. The food will be transported by an overland route to the North through Dandong, Lianoning Province.
 
The association will send more aid over the next two months for a total of 295-thousand pieces of bread, one-thousand kilograms of baby food and two-thousand kilograms of nutritional aid. 
 
Another organization, Medical Aid for Children, plans to send 220 million won worth of antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medications and medical supplies to a children’s hospital in the North through the Port of Incheon on Friday. The supplies are expected to arrive at North Korea's Nampo Port around next Saturday.
 
Green Tree Charity Foundation will also send 290 million won worth of supplies through Incheon on Friday for students with disabilities and orphans. The wheelchairs, crutches, blankets and clothes will arrive in the North next Saturday.
 
The remaining two private organizations haven't finalized plans but intend to send supplies to the North before the middle of next month. 

The Unification Ministry approved the roughly one-and-a-half billion won worth of aid shipments for North Korean infants and children earlier this week.