Crest Hill Amazon Sort Center Goes Gold for Children Fighting Cancer

The employees at Amazon Sort Center in Crest Hill are delivering smiles to children fighting cancer by hosting an Amazon Goes Gold toy drive throughout September to help bring awareness to childhood cancer. All proceeds benefited the Orland Park-based Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. Amazon in Crest Hill Human Resources employee Felipe Gomez-Jacobo said, “I came up with the Amazon Goes Gold idea to donate to the Treasure Chest Foundation. These children and teens should not be focusing on being sick, they should be living life.” Amazon GM Administrative Assistant Morgaine Roberts chimed in saying, “We are doing our part to bring joy to the kids.”

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Ms. Kisel, Founder of the Treasure Chest Foundation added, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to the Amazon Crest Hill Family for spearheading the toy drive. Their tremendous support will brighten the lives of so many brave children battling cancer.” said an appreciative Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 15,700 young cancer patients in 65 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.