Voice of America(VOA) reported Friday that the U.N. World Food Program(WFP) provided 19-hundred tons of food aid to vulnerable North Koreans in April.
 
Silke Buhr, spokeswoman of WFP's Regional Bureau for Asia, told VOA the food aid went to 760-thousand-400 people in the North, including children and pregnant and nursing women.
 
Nineteen-hundred tons breaks down to 25-hundred grams of food per person for a month or about 83 grams a day.
 
Overall aid volume in April rose seven percent from March but per capita daily rations fell from 86 grams the previous month.
 
It marks a sharper drop compared to April last year when over a hundred grams of daily rations per person were given to 640-thousand North Koreans. 
 
The spokeswoman said the WFP is in dire need of funding, which is why it was only able to provide around two-thirds of the standard ration in April.

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