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April Lufriu is a Tampa native and a first generation American from Guanaja, Honduras. She is a wife and a mother of three children –Chad, Brandon, and Savannah & a grandmother to Dalton. She's an entrepreneur and owns successful natural stone/quartz countertop fabrication company along with her husband, George Lufriu, called Lufriu Marble and Granite, LLC. She also a professional actor/model/spokesperson and TV host on Home Shopping Channel.
Fighting Blindness
In 2007, April and her sister Melissa pioneered in establishing the Tampa Bay Chapter for the Foundation Fighting Blindness in 2007. Both sisters are leaders and produced a successful Tampa Bay Vision Walk event from 2007 to 2013. April became the National Spokesperson for the Foundation Fighting Blindness in 2011. April continues to serve a national trustee for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and she serves on the board of directors for the Lions Eye Institute.
As a mom on a mission to find a cure for Retinitis Pigmentosa, April speaks at numerous events about her journey in fighting blindness and she tirelessly advocates and supports the blind community by raising awareness and raising funds for research to find a cure.
A word to describe April is persistence!! For 22 years April competed in pageants without ever winning a crown. In 2010, April’s life changed forever when she and her two children were diagnosis with Retinitis Pigmentosa - a retinal degenerative eye disease that progressively leads to blindness. With a new mission in life to help raise awareness for the blinding disease that affects her children & herself, April re-entered into the pageant world and swept the pageant circuit like a quite storm by capturing the Mrs Florida America 2011 title. As April represented Florida at nationals she triumphantly was crowned Mrs America 2011 being the second oldest winner in the pageant’s history. She then went on to represent America at the 2012 Mrs World pageant and captured the prestigious title breaking records of being the shortest at 5’4” and the oldest at age of 42 years to capture the ultimate Mrs World crown. Her motto is “Become What You Believe” and to live life without limits.