Lincoln-Way West High School Warrior Way Program Collects Toys

Members of the Lincoln-Way West High School Warrior Way program are giving to children fighting cancer by hosting a collection drive to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. After the drive ended 320 toys were collected to directly benefit children fighting cancer.

The Lincoln-Way West High School Warrior Way program is a senior leadership program that meets throughout the school year to develop students’ leadership skills. Warrior Way students must practice positive character traits such as Be Respectful; Be Responsible; Be Reliable; Be Safe.

Treasure Chest Foundation Founder Colleen Kisel expressed her gratitude for the generous support shown by the Lincoln-Way West High School Warrior Way program, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to the Warrior Way program for their enormous donation,” said Ms. Kisel. “I want the students to know what a tremendous impact their toy donations will have on the children fighting cancer.”

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.