Comments on: (At least) three faces of Ethiopia http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2008/10/at-least-three-faces-of-ethiopia/ Tales from the front line of our work to eradicate poverty worldwide. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fiona Louise Lappin http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/2008/10/at-least-three-faces-of-ethiopia/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Fiona Louise Lappin Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:13:25 +0000 http://blogs.dfid.gov.uk/?p=263#comment-41 Hi Howard. I like your 'three (or more) faces'. You are absolutely right that not many people know about the second and particularly the third faces of countries like Ethiopia! These are important hidden faces that need to be revealed. Here in Vietnam, where I started as Head around the same time as you started in Addis I see similarly contrasting faces.. After being devasted by war, Vietnam has had an amazing poverty reduction story - 24 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last 15 years or so. But when you actually live here it is so much more real as you can feel the change going on, but also the challenges existing. If you want to see another face of Vietnam , see my post on Mark Kent's blog . Mark is UK Ambassador in Vietnam , and we work so closely that he asked me to do a guest blog on his site for Blog Action Day 08 on Poverty. Fiona. http://ukinvietnam.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/?view=News&id=7539356 Hi Howard. I like your 'three (or more) faces'. You are absolutely right that not many people know about the second and particularly the third faces of countries like Ethiopia! These are important hidden faces that need to be revealed. Here in Vietnam, where I started as Head around the same time as you started in Addis I see similarly contrasting faces.. After being devasted by war, Vietnam has had an amazing poverty reduction story - 24 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last 15 years or so. But when you actually live here it is so much more real as you can feel the change going on, but also the challenges existing. If you want to see another face of Vietnam , see my post on Mark Kent's blog . Mark is UK Ambassador in Vietnam , and we work so closely that he asked me to do a guest blog on his site for Blog Action Day 08 on Poverty. Fiona.

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