Orland Park Residents Unique TOYLESS Holiday Toy Drive

Orland Park resident and Treasure Chest Foundation weekly volunteer Jane Rozdilsky hosted a creative holiday TOYLESS toy drive with the goal of helping children fighting cancer.

Jane Rozdilsky reached out to family and friends asking loved ones to skip the wrapping paper and gift exchange and donate to the Treasure Chest Foundation. After the last donation came in $1,060.00 was collected and delivered to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation warehouse in Orland Park.

Jane Rozdilsky said, “I’m overwhelmed with the generosity of my friends and family. Cancer treatment does not stop in a pandemic.”

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel extended her most sincere gratitude to Jane for organizing an innovative and successful TOYLESS toy drive. “We feel so blessed and honored to have the support of the Rozdilsky friends and family. Their donation will help support thousands of children and teens who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the children with a toy, gift or gift card after every procedure.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,600 young cancer patients in 61cancer 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 27th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2020.

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.