National Volunteer Month at the Treasure Chest Foundation

National Volunteer Month in the United States takes place in the month of April. This month is dedicated to honoring all the volunteers at the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF) in Orland Park.

The Treasure Chest Foundation has been blessed with hundreds of volunteers who work tirelessly. Our volunteers will always be silent heroes in the lives of the children and teens the Treasure Chest Foundation serves.

Danny Thomas once said "Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

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 30th 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.