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Addison SCARCE Gives Back to the Community
Addison SCARCE Gives Back to the Community by Donating Coloring Books, Books, Crayons and Gifts for Children with Cancer
SCARCE located in Addison donates a van load of coloring books, books, crayons, and gifts to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The donation will help brighten the faces of children who are battling cancer.SCARCE’s mission is to inspire people through education to preserve and care for the Earth’s natural resources, while working to build sustainable communities. SCARCE Volunteer Coordinator Rose Naseef said, “We are so glad the supplies are what you need! Thank you, Treasure Chest, for supporting kids with cancer.”
POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to SCARCE and their employees for their efforts in donating such an impressive total. “We feel so grateful to have the support of SCARCE. Their donation will help to benefit the children who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the kids with a toy or gift after every procedure,” said Ms. Kisel.
The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,000 young cancer patients in 59 cancer treatment centers in 20 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 27th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2020.
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If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s web site at www.treasurechest.org.
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SCARCE Environmental Educators Laura Fanning, Jan Breyne and Erin Kennedy help load a van full of donated coloring books, books, crayons, and gifts for children at the SCARCE location in Addison. These gifts will be shipped to Children’s Cancer Treatment Centers nationwide where they will help provide smiles of joy to brave childhood cancer patients.
