Frankfort Lions Club Roars for Kids Fighting Cancer

The Frankfort Lions Club recently roared into their monthly Lions Club meeting at Founders Community Center in Frankfort and delivered a check for $500 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

The Frankfort Lions Club is a community organization with dedicated volunteers who serve the Frankfort area.

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel expressed her gratitude for the generous support shown by the Frankfort Lions Club. “The Lions Club has been extremely generous to the Treasure Chest Foundation over the years. I am especially grateful to the fine men and women of the Frankfort Lions Club. A donation of this magnitude is a blessing and will brighten hospital visits for so many brave children and teens battling cancer,” said Ms. Kisel.

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.

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.