Who doesn’t love shopping for a good cause? Midlothian resident Lizzeth Palafox loves shopping so much that she shops all year long to benefit children and teens served by the Treasure Chest Foundation. When the last shopping cart had rolled across the checkout lane Lizzeth Palafox donated a vanload of toys and gifts for children and teens fighting cancer.
Colleen Kisel, Founder and CEO of the Treasure Chest Foundation said, “We certainly appreciate Lizzeth’s generosity and we are grateful she chose to help the Treasure Chest Foundation.”
The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 16,100 young cancer patients in 66 cancer treatment centers in 21 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Ms. Kisel discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain, noting that when children are diagnosed with cancer their world soon becomes filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 29th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2022.
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If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 1-708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org.
