Chicago Nomads Ski Club is Giving to Children and Teens with Cancer

The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation recently received a mountain of toys, $290 in gift cards and $30 to benefit children fighting cancer thanks to the work of the Chicago Nomads Ski Club.

The Nomads Ski Club is a Chicago-area nonprofit skiing, snowboarding and social club established in 1961. The club is composed of 200 members dedicated to offering the most economical and hassle-free ski/snowboarding trips for its members during the winter along with a year-round schedule of activities.

Ms. Kisel, Founder of the Treasure Chest Foundation said, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to Chicago Nomads Ski Club members for their enormous donation of toys and gift cards. A donation of this magnitude will brighten the endless visits to the Children’s Cancer Treatments Centers for so many brave children and teens battling cancer.”

Chicago Nomads Ski Club member and Treasure Chest Foundation volunteer Rick Larson had this to say, “We are a very giving community that wants to give back. We are happy to support 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 this year.

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.