TowneBank hosted a special event at its North Suffolk member service center Friday ahead of today’s construction of a play set for a young Virginia Beach cancer sufferer.

TowneBank hosted the event as sponsor of the Roc Solid Foundation’s construction of a Play It Forward play set for Lily Schweitzer, a brave 4-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Lily is currently receiving treatment at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters.

TowneBank has been a longtime supporter of the Roc Solid Foundation, which was founded in 2007 by cancer survivor Eric Newman to support children battling cancer.

The foundation’s flagship program, Play It Forward, has constructed dozens of custom play sets for pediatric cancer patients.

Recipient children and their families return from being taken out in a limo for the day to new play sets in their backyards.

The TowneBank volunteers and 15 other volunteers from the Roc Solid Foundation were preassembling the play set’s main parts in the parking lot of TowneBank’s North Suffolk Member Service Center late Friday.

The scene was a whirlwind of power drilling and tape measuring.

“What we do here (is) we assemble the main structure,” foundation Program Coordinator Cara Cauldwell said. “When we take it tomorrow, all that’s left is attaching things together.”

About 45 volunteers will assist in the construction and presentation of the play set. Roc Solid Foundation Director of Volunteers Greg Ohmsen, also part of the TowneBank family, described the impact of the charity on children’s lives.

“TowneBank is proud to be a part of Roc Solid’s efforts to support children battling cancer in our community,” Ohmsen wrote in an email.

“The impact a play set can have on a child is indescribable — it’s a small token of encouragement that lets them know they’re not fighting this battle alone.”

The play set build was to get underway at the Schweitzer family home at 9 a.m. today. Lily will be surprised with her new play set at noon.

Newman says children like Lily Schweitzer benefit greatly from having their own play equipment at home.

“The treatments these kids undergo are intense, leaving them with little time and energy to enjoy playing like most kids do on a daily basis,” Newman said in an email. “It’s our goal to build hope for them by allowing them to be carefree for the day, and the pure joy on their faces when they see their new play sets for the first time makes it all worthwhile.”

For more information about Roc Solid, visit www.rocsolidfoundation.org.