Wood Dale Videojet Technologies hosted a creative toy drive with the goal of helping children and teens fighting cancer in memory of their colleague Joanne Fradin to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF). After the last toy was dropped off 100’s of toys was donated and $290 in gift cards to help brighten the faces of children and teens who are battling cancer.
Videojet Technologies Inc. manufactures and markets coding and marking equipment and supplies. The Company offers continuous ink jets, laser marking, thermal transfer over printers, case coding and labeling, thermal ink jets, commercial graphics and addressing, track and trace solutions, software products, and postal systems.
Videojet Senior Executive Manager Sue Sweeney said, “In celebration of Customer Service Week, the Customer Service Team sponsored a toy drive in memory of Joanne Fradin, a team member we lost last year due to cancer. Joanne’s passion was to help children that were battling cancer. We chose the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest based on the mission. I learned of the Foundation from Flavia Moylan whose son Joe benefitted from the foundation.”
POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to Videojet and their employees for their efforts in donating such an impressive total. “We feel so grateful to have the support of the Videojet Family. Their donation will help to benefit the children who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the kids with a toy, gift or gift card after every procedure,” said Ms. Kisel.
The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,000 young cancer patients in 58 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 26th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2019.
Source: Wood Dale Videojet Technologies Hosts Toy Drive – Patch.com
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