Providence Catholic High School Helps Teens with Cancer

Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox is giving back to teens fighting cancer. The high school recently designed a school-wide Gift Card Fundraiser as part of its holiday charitable giving event. The fundraiser was designed to raise gift cards for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The event raised $650 in gift cards for teens fighting cancer.

Providence Catholic High School is inspired by Augustinian values of truth, unity, and love, the Providence Catholic High School family is a vibrant community of believers and learners, one in mind and heart on the way to God.

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel said, “We are delighted by the support of the Providence Catholic High School teens who spearheaded such a successful gift card drive. We are delighted 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.