State Farm Located in Tinley Park Helps Children Fighting Cancer

State Farm agent Jim Fuentes is giving back to children and teens fighting cancer by hosting a staff holiday luncheon to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. State Farm Agent Jim Fuentes and wife Lois Fuentes donated $250 and toys collected during the staff holiday luncheon. Their donation will benefit children and teens fighting cancer. Jim has also been a State Farm Agent for 30 years.

Lois said, “We feel this is what Christmas is all about. We believe in giving to others, especially innocent children who are suffering.”

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel extended her most sincere gratitude to State Farm agent Jim Fuentes and Lois Fuentes for their efforts in organizing such an impressive holiday toy drive. “We feel so blessed and honored to have the support of State Farm Agent Jim Fuentes and Lois Fuentes.

Their donation will help support children and teens who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments.”

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.