Walsh Construction Workers Help Children Fighting Cancer

The employees at Walsh Construction are opening their hearts to help children fight cancer. Workers from Walsh Construction located in Chicago were recently asked to donate a new toy during the holiday toy drive. When the dust had settled, a carload of toys had been delivered on behalf of the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF) to directly benefit children fighting cancer.

Walsh Construction Group is a fourth-generation family-owned business that provides design, build, finance and operation for a wide variety of construction projects while upholding the highest standards of ethics, quality and safety.

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel said, “We are extremely grateful to the Walsh Construction family for showing their compassion by collecting toys for the kids we serve.”

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 29th 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.