Greetings All! <3

My name is April Bonham Curry, I have a huge passion for helping others, and strive to make the world around me happier everywhere I go. I am a proud wife, step mother to 3 beautiful girls, and an angel mommy to a little boy and little girl. Ever since I was a little girl, I was always focused on how I could help people around me. Some people call it a savior complex, I call it being a good person. I was raised by a single mother who had 5 children, in South Fort Worth. She was my world. My mother focused on being other centered, nurturing our gifts, and reminding us that everything happens for a reason. Through my childhood we had a lot of ups and downs, we experienced poverty, disease, loss of family members, worried about where our next meal would come from, worried about when the electricity was going to go out because we couldn’t afford the bill, the list goes on. Although we had our struggles, we had many blessings inside of that. My mother put my siblings and I in Applied Learning Schools, so instead of focusing on athletics, we focused on serving in the community, to where we could better understand society. In middle school I had a multitude of experiences through the Applied Learning system that opened my eyes to a lot of things most children are shielded from. Our middle school decided to join forces with the International Newcomers Academy, and built a larger campus to where we could all learn to integrate into mixed cultural backgrounds. I feel honored to have been a part of that movement. High school was a whole other story. I jumped into key club, color guard in band, choir, student council, and was the mascot my senior year for R.L. Paschal High School from 2005-2006. Let me tell you, that was so much fun. Being active in school, and focusing on good grades wasn’t my only obsession. I was very active in my home church, University Baptist Church by Texas Christian University. I sang for the youth praise and worship band, I helped lead vacation bible school, I was in choir, and a special Acapella singing group, I went to church camp for years, and I also attended many Youth Missions across the United States. My last Hoorah was when I went and did Border Ministries in Juarez, Mexico. All of those years of Spanish paid off, I was able to communicate with the children there, and bring smiles to their faces. Not sure if you can see, but all of the things I experienced as a child were coming together to remind me of my purpose.

My senior year of high school my mothers disease started to entirely consume her, she ended up passing away in the summer of 2007 after 10 long years of struggling with Scleroderma. My siblings and my grandparents were very involved in her care, going with her to the doctor over the years, and would help find ways to make her feel better at home. After she passed my siblings and I all felt completely lost. I was 19, and had no idea how to properly take care of myself in adult life. My siblings and I were all moved away from each other, because we no longer had our family home. My little sister was in college attending University of Texas at San Antonio, my older sister was attending college at Hardin Simmons in Abilene, and my dad shipped my little brothers off to East Texas because he was clueless on how to deal with teenage boys. Life ended up becoming really blurry for all of us, navigating life through loss at a young age.

I ended up becoming entangled in an abusive relationship the end of my senior year in 2006, I was so blind to the abuse because I grew up without a male role model in my home. I thought everything that was happening to me was “normal”. The abuse became pretty terrifying, the day of my mothers memorial service I came home 15 minutes later than anticipated and a series of unexpected events unfolded. I ended up miscarrying my little boy. My older sister had me come stay with her in Abilene, but I was in such a haze, I decided to ask if I could come and live with my grandparents close to Denton, TX. They were very hesitant, and made me agree to go and stay at a battered women’s shelter before I moved in to their residence. The days at Safe Haven were very uncomfortable, being exposed to so many peoples trauma without knowing how to handle my own. Once my time was up there I rushed and moved into a place that I felt like I could call a home. I got a job, learned how to drive by practicing in my moms old car, and decided to change my life for the better.

I enlisted in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer, to where I could properly learn how to protect myself, and others. It all felt like a dream come true. Until it wasn’t. I ended up getting hurt really bad, and was med boarded out, luckily the VA has been caring for me ever since.

In the years passing I had to start over in life, over and over, and over again. It was pretty difficult, but I made it work. I lived in Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota. I got to see all kinds of different walks of life, while floating around trying to find myself.

In 2017 I moved back to Fort Worth with a close friend from my childhood. Started working really hard in the service industry, and was rising to the top with ease. But I still felt like something was missing, I spent years of my life chasing what I thought I deserved, but always ended up with empty hands. September 2017 it happened. Life started changing for me drastically. I got the courage to try online dating services, where I got to be incredibly picky, and choose who would fit my personality. Then out of nowhere I discovered my sweet Andrew. The moment we met in person, I fell in love instantly. The kind of love people write stories about. We became inseparable, we have only spent maybe 10 days apart since the day we met. With finding him I was blessed with 3 amazing step daughters. I love them more than words can express. They entered my life at age 5, soon to be 3, and 15 months old. I was thrown into raising 3 little munchkins who deserved all the love in the world.

Life had its battles since we got together, but we stood by each others side through thick and thin. We were fortunate to have a child of our own together as well, but she was born sleeping at 37 weeks of pregnancy. I kept wondering, “why? why does all of this keep happening?” Nothing made sense anymore, or so I thought. November of 2024 a friend of mine reached out to me stating there was a 17 year old sleeping outside of the North Richland Hills Public Library. Without hesitation I grabbed my bag, my phone and keys and told my husband I had something very important to do.

I found him. It all felt so surreal, it was around 10:30 at night, you could barely see anything from how dark it was, but he was outside sleeping behind one of the structural posts. He trusted me, got in my car, and my journey began. This young man is one of the districts McKinney - Vento kids, he is an unaccompanied homeless youth, just trying to find his way. Like I was many years ago. Then it hit me, everything I went through, all of my challenges, all of my blessings, they all led me to that very moment.

I took immediate action, reached out to local resources, the district, my community of neighbors, and created an action plan for him. The rest is history. It ended up exploding into what we have today, my volunteer led community program. Building A Better Tomorrow. My past so closely lines up with many of the children struggling in the system, who just needed someone to ask “are you okay?”. My purpose in life has been fully exposed, and I plan to use my gifts of loving unconditionally, trusting in the universe, and utilizing my wisdom to help the youth feel stable. Happy, healthy, and safe. We all deserve those 3 little things. With the help of this community program, we can finally start instilling those needs into the youth in our area.

I would absolutely love it if you would join me, in serving others to make tomorrow a little easier than yesterday. I am actively looking for partnerships, volunteer opportunities, and ways to give back. All of the partnerships that end up being created are not for my ego to be praised, or for “fame”. It’s to make a stronger network for everyone. Like its supposed to have been all along.

If you have any interest in donating towards the construction of our shelter, or donating physical items to the agencies I have listed, please don’t let me hold you back. There are a few policies I have made and follow to protect everyone; the volunteers, the agencies, and especially the youth. CPS is on speed dial in my phone along with the local authorities. With that being said, we are going to need a lot of help getting all of this moving forward. All current donations are going towards getting my program certified as a nonprofit, it will cover all filing fees, and making sure I have all of the right credentials to start a very real promising program.

The community center is going to need a few passionate souls to help teach a few things to our youth in need. Please check out YCC Goals for more details on all of that.

I know this may have been a lengthy read, but I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart, for coming to this website I created, and taking the time out of your day to even consider joining BABT. If you do join, you will not regret it. Once you join, you become a part of the BABT family. We can’t wait to meet you.