Choc'late Allen

Choc'late Allen (born June 19, 1993) is a child activist who arose to national awareness in early 2007 by staging a 5-day fast in an effort to promote the concept of Taking Personal Responsibility for our individual thoughts and actions; in order to treat with social issues plagueing Trinidad and Tobago.^[1]

The daughter of a local entertainer named Kurt Allen, she is the CEO of Caribbean Vizion, a nonprofit youth organization. During such activity, Allen received visitors from then Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Prime Minister Patrick Manning.

Allen also recently formed a Youth Committee of young persons under the age of 17 who has the same goal of making a positive impact on youths and society.

With the various school motivational school tours and projects that Allen has embarked on during the "100% Crime Free" initiative, she is committed to her programmes and always sticking to her vision of creating a peaceful society by us accepting personal responsibility for our actions.

In 2008, Allen launched her singing career and 2008 initiative at the 15th annual Rebel Salute concert in Jamaica. Rebel Salute is a positive reggae concert held and formed by the legendary Tony Rebel and Flames Productions. The concert is one of NO alcohol, NO violence, NO meat and NO drugs. Following this major event, Allen was then invited by Mrs. Rita Marley to be the co-chair of the Africa Unite Youth Symposium and also to perform at the Africa Unite-Smile Jamaica concert. The concert featured acts like, Bunny Wailer, John Legend, Rihanna, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers/ The Marley brothers and other local and international artiste. Allen wowed these audiences with her voice, presence, rendition, melodic original songs and positive lyrics.

Recently, in addition to the continuation of her Taking Personal Responsibility movement, as an activist, she has been visiting several schools in Jamaica; with the support of many UN agencies and other organizations. As an artiste, Choc'late collaborated with Reggae artiste, Queen Ifrica, in a song titled "Friends" which covers both the child and adult vision of friendship. The two performed the song at the first international night of the Reggae Summer Festival, and according to all reviews of the show, the collaboration was well received and very touching.

References

1. ^ http://newsday.co.tt/crime/0,50683.html

External links

• Website
• Myspace site

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Name	Allen, Choclate
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Date of birth	June 19, 1993
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