South Suburban Bunco Babes Bring Women Together to Deliver Smiles

A South Suburban Bunco Babes Club rolled into the Treasure Chest Foundation to benefit teens fighting cancer. When the last dice were rolled, the staff was overjoyed to receive a donation of $365 in gift cards for teens fighting cancer.

Bunco Babes Club member Nancy Miller rolled the dice when she texted all the members and asked the “babes” to drop off gift cards to support teens fighting cancer at her Palos Park home. Nancy said, “Everyone was excited and willing to help. Many of us were teachers and we can relate to the older kids. Our grandchildren are teens now.” Club member Janet Loughrey chimed in saying, “I am retired now, and I wanted to help.”

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel said, “When a teenager must endure the rigors of cancer treatment, there is little anyone can do to take away the pain. However, through the efforts of the Treasure Chest Foundation, teens are provided with comfort and distraction during the times they need it most. We are blessed to have the support of the Suburban Bunco Babes Club.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,600 young cancer patients in 62 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 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 708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org