Health & Fitness
Palos Hills Oak Ridge Elementary School is Giving From the Heart to Benefit Teens with Cancer
Oak Ridge Elementary School Math Teacher and Advisor Ms. Susan Dembek pictured at the Treasure Chest Foundation's warehouse.
Members of the Oak Ridge Student Council in Palos Hills are giving to teens fighting cancer by giving from the heart during their “Have a Heart” collection campaign to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF).
During the month of February the Oak Ridge Elementary School students and staff collected $470 in gift cards and more than $400 for teens fighting cancer.
Oak Ridge School is dedicated to create a positive, caring, learning environment, which fosters excellence and active student participation and to ensure that every student will realize his/her full potential as a socially responsible lifelong learner.
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Math Teacher and Advisor Ms. Susan Dembek said, “We can’t think of a better Foundation to support but the Treasure Chest Foundation. We work with kids, and they are our life work. We do it because we love kids.”
POTCF CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel expressed her profound gratitude for the generous support shown by the children and families of the Oak Ridge Elementary School. “The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to the Palos Hills Oak Ridge Elementary School families for their enormous donation for the teens.” said Ms. Kisel. “It is difficult to bring in items for our teenage clients fighting cancer.”
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The not-for-profit Treasure Chest Foundation now supports more than 9,300 children and teens each month who are diagnosed with cancer by providing a toy or gift card in 49 hospitals nationwide. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. CEO Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Colleen discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain. Martin is on course to celebrate his 22nd anniversary of remission from the disease later this year.
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.
