Austin Carter Donates Gift Cards to Teens Fighting Cancer

Tinley Park teen Austin Carter is giving to teens fighting cancer. Austin Carter (age 18), inspired by his three grandparents who battled cancer, decided to spend his money he saved from working all year to support teens fighting cancer. Austin donated $100 in gift cards to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

Austin said “I used money I saved from working all year because kids battling cancer need it more than I do. This is my ninth year donating to Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. I’m a people person and I always like to put others before me.”

“The support of the local community means a lot and we are extremely grateful to Austin for his generous donation. It was very honorable of him to give up his money from working all year to help teens who are battling cancer.” said Colleen Kisel, Founder and CEO of the Treasure Chest Foundation.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,300 young cancer patients in 56 cancer treatment centers in 19 states across the nation. 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 26th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2019.

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.