Treasure Chest Foundation Receives Truckload of Merchandise

The employees of the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation were delighted when a semi-truck pulled up to their warehouse with a load of merchandise to benefit children and teens fighting cancer. The appreciative staff members and volunteers were amazed when the driver opened the truck to reveal nine pallets full of journals, phone chargers, phone holders, lunch bags, Bluetooth speakers, sunglasses, pens, power banks, mobile accessory kits, water bottles, travel domino sets and plush airplane toys. The items are valued at $95,000.00 and weighed an estimated 3,400 pounds.

For over 40 years, Creata USA found the connection between brands and play. They put that connection to work for the world’s leading marketers. Creata’s insights and ideas became innovative products and services that generate affinity for brands and forge emotional bonds in families and friends.

Thanks to the kindness of Creata USA, hundreds of children and teens who

have struggled in their battle against childhood cancer found a reason to smile during the summer season.

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel said, “We feel so blessed and honored to have the support from Creata USA. The donation will help support thousands of children and teens who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the little ones with a toy, gift or gift card after every procedure.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 13,000 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 25th anniversary of remission from the disease earlier 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.

Photo caption:

R + L Carriers drops down nine pallets of merchandise from Oakbrook Terrace Creata USA at the Treasure Chest Foundation’s Orland Park warehouse. The items will help bring smiles of joy to 13,000 childhood cancer patients nationwide.