SCARCE in Addison Gives Back to the Community

Addison SCARCE gives back to the community and donates 1,000 items of coloring books, books, toys and gifts to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF). The donation will help brighten the faces of children and teens who are battling cancer.

SCARCE’s mission is to inspire people through education to preserve and care for the Earth’s natural resources while working to build sustainable communities. SCARCE Volunteer Coordinator Rose Naseef said, “We are so glad the supplies are what you need! Thank you, Treasure Chest, for supporting kids with cancer.”

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to SCARCE and their employees for their efforts in donating such an impressive total. “We feel so grateful to have the ongoing support of SCARCE. Their donation will help to benefit the children and teens who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the kids with a toy or gift after every procedure,” said Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,800 young cancer patients in 63 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 28th 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.