Poverty Requiem

Singers and dancers perform the Poverty Requiem outside the World Bank's headquarters in Washington on Sunday

To coincide with the Stand Up and Speak Out mobilisations around the world, a Poverty Requiem was performed in Washington yesterday. The piece, whose lyrics were written by Sylvia Borren of Oxfam Novib, was performed by students from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for performing arts. The Requiem was also performed globally on World Poverty Day, 17 October, with more than twenty choirs including in the Philippines, Gambia, Nigeria, Palestine and Suriname.