Bunco Club Brings Women Together to Deliver Smiles to Teens

A South Suburban Bunco Club rolled into the Treasure Chest Foundation to benefit teens fighting cancer. When the last dice were rolled, the staff was overjoyed to receive a donation of $400 in gift cards and items for teens fighting cancer.

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel said, “When a teenager must endure the rigors of cancer treatment, there is little anyone can do to take away the pain. However, through the efforts of the Treasure Chest Foundation, teens are provided with comfort and distraction during the times they need it most. We are blessed to have the support of the South Suburban Bunco Women.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,000 young cancer patients in 58 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 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.