Medinger Brothers Organize Holiday Toy Drive to Help Children

The family and friends of Matt Medinger from Orland Park and Rob Medinger from Oak Lawn are giving to children fighting cancer. The two brothers hosted a holiday toy drive by asking neighbors, friends and family to donate a toy to help children and teens fighting cancer. Two van loads of toys were collected to be distributed to children fighting cancer to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation in Orland Park.

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel extended her most sincere gratitude to the Medinger brothers for their efforts in organizing such a successful holiday toy drive. “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to the Medinger family and friends for their enormous donation,” said a grateful Colleen Kisel, Founder and CEO of the Treasure Chest Foundation.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 16,100 young cancer patients in 66 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.