Frankfort Benevolent Baby Gives to Children Fighting Cancer

The family and friends of Jack Crozier give to children and teens fighting cancer. The family of one-year-old Jack of Frankfort decided to ask friends to bring toys and gift card donations to their family party. When the party was over, the Crozier family accumulated 68 toys, $580 in gift cards and $100 to donate to the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation.

Mom, Mary Crozier, said “We have a happy, healthy baby and not everyone does. We are so grateful for what we have, so we wanted to help.”

POTCF Founder Colleen Kisel said, “We feel so blessed to have the support of the Crozier family and all of their friends and for that, we are extremely grateful.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 16,100 young cancer patients in 66 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 30th 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.