Glen Ellyn SCARCE Gives Back to the Community by Donating Books

Glen Ellyn SCARCE donates coloring books and gifts to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF). SCARCE donated 38 cases of books and gifts to 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, gift or gift card after every procedure,” said Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,300 young cancer patients enduring 20,000 clinic visits each month 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 earlier this month.

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 team member Heather Goudreau and Volunteer Coordinator Rose Naseef displaying 38 cases of donated books and gifts at the SCARCE location in Glen Ellyn. 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.