Indian Head Park Women’s Club Provides Comfort to Children with Cancer

In the spirit of giving, Indian Head Park Women’s Club is providing comfort to children fighting cancer by creating numerous hats and scarves to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF).

The Indian Head Park Women’s Club is a women’s organization dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service. Second Vice President and head recruiter Marge Nelson said, “I’m not able to make the items anymore, but I told the ladies that I would deliver them. It’s awesome to put a smile on the face of a child.”

Ms. Kisel expressed her profound gratitude, saying, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful for their enormous donation. The hats and scarves are very popular at the Children’s Cancer Treatment Centers.”

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 30th 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.