National Decorating Service Delivers Toys for Kids with Cancer

The employees at National Decorating Service in Oak Brook, Chicagoland’s premier painting contractor delivered a huge shipment of toys and $65 to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation warehouse in Orland Park.

National Decorating Service is family owned and operated. They are a full-service union painting and decorating contractor that has been serving Chicago for nearly one hundred years and employs painters from District Council 14 Chicago and District council 30 Northern Illinois of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

Ms. Kisel, Founder of the Treasure Chest Foundation said, “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to National Decorating Service for spearheading such an enormous toy drive and for the generous employees that participated in the toy drive. We are blessed to have their support.”

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 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.