The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa)
February 2, 2007
Amanuel Hadera
The Sustainable Tourism for Eliminating of Poverty Foundation (ST-EP), a non-governmental organization under the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), has made significant progress in poverty elimination programme in Konso area.
In a joint press conference she gave at the Ghion Hotel yesterday, Ambassador Dho Yong-Shim Chairperson Board of Directors of ST-EP, Ambassador Mohammed Dirir Minister of Culture and Tourism said that the ST-EP in Ethiopia is a new project focusing on the Konso people who were marginalized and forgotten community.
Ambassador Mohammed also said that ST-EP project that has been established at the headquarter of South Korea, Seoul, has touching base with a very marginalized community in Ethiopia like the Konso people. The ST-EP has so far solicited 8,000 USD for the execution of the project, he added.
Ambassador Dho on her part said that state of poverty in Ethiopia now is a reflection of what she had seen at here early childhood in Korea when the per capita was 100 USD. However, Korea is now enjoying a 20,000 USD per capita, she added .
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