Treasure Chest Foundation is Charged Up by Recent Donation

The Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation was charged up after EnerSys located in Romeoville, IL donated a forklift battery with the goal of keeping the Foundations forklift moving. The forklift battery will help unload trucks full of toys throughout the year and thus be able to serve children and teens fighting cancer who need assistance.

EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. They manufacture and distribute reserve power and motive power batteries, battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories and outdoor equipment enclosure solutions to customers worldwide.

“The Treasure Chest Foundation is especially grateful to Dan Walker Son of Board Member Herb Walker for spearheading this tremendous donation from his employer,” said Treasure Chest Foundation Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel, “We are grateful for EnerSys most generous donation of a forklift battery and for scrapping our old, worn out battery. Last December we unloaded a truckload of donated toys by hand. We look forward to the next truckload delivery of toys thanks to Dan Walker and his team at EnerSys.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,300 young cancer patients enduring 20,000 clinic visits each month in 19 states across the nation. 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.