Promoting Innovation in Agriculture

GJC & Associates, Law Partners with SpagnVola Chocolate and the Caribbean Agricultural Network

In collaboration with CiBEXO Group Dominica, the Law Office of Gabriel Christian and Caribbean Agriculture Network, SPAGnVOLA Chocolatier joins the relief effort for Dominica victims of Tropical Storm Erika.

As of Thursday, September 17th, SPAGnVOLA will have a limited number of Dominica's premium chocolates bars for sale at their outlets in Gaithersburg and National Harbor. These artisan bars are made from cocoa produced in Dominica and will be for sale at $25.00 each. "The main ingredient in these bars is love and this is what's being sent to Dominica with a 100% of the proceeds from this effort" says SPAGnVOLA's head chocolate maker, Crisoire Reid.

This fundraising effort is demonstrative of our commitment not only to the farmers but to a people with whom we have fallen in love during our visit earlier this year. As we are limited to 1,000 bars and earmarked to raise US$25,000 we are seeking the support of chocolate lovers by sampling this new chocolate.

From Dominica, a lush arcadia of towering thickly forested mountains swept by sweet Caribbean breezes come Chocolat de la Dominique. Dominica is in that part of the Americas where cocoa originated, and where Meso Americans traversed the Caribbean and connected with the Central American isthmus and what is today Venezuela. In the 1900s Dominica' s lush forest and Botanic Gardens were laboratories for the added introduction of fine flavored Trinitario and Criollo beans carefully nurtured in partnership with the world renowned Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at Trinidad (now the University of the West Indies-St. Augustine). A British colony then, Dominica’s beans was highly prized by the leading British chocolatiers who used the island's fine flavor beans to add exquisite taste to their bars. SPAGnVOLA's Chocolat de la Dominique was born of the vision of Christian family matriarch Alberta Christian who was born at Dominica's Cocoa Center in the Layou Valley in 1929.