eden's trust - campaigning for safer holidays
Welcome to eden's trust an organisation which is dedicated to making holidays and travel safer for everyone.
This year millions of individuals and families will travel abroad for a holiday but sadly some of them will not come home and others will suffer life-changing injuries. eden's trust aims to ensure that these tragedies don't keep on happening.
We aim to:
- Educate people on the dangers while on holiday or travelling abroad.
- Campaigning to ensure that all holiday companies, tour operators, and individuals who own and let out properties abroad to holidaymakers, have an obligation to ensure the safety of their guests by providing safe accommodation, entertainment and resources.
- Campaigning to make sure EU safety standards are reached at properties within the EU.
- Provide an information list of tour operators/agents who adhere to EU (or similar) health and safety regulations.
- Provide help and answer questions to people prior to travelling abroad including safety of destinations.
- Offer support to those travellers who find themselves in trouble while on holiday by setting up a hotline to offer advice on dealing with the local police and media.
- Offer trauma counselling to those people who have suffered a tragic loss or injury while abroad.
- Offer help finding legal representation and court procedures.
Why has eden's trust been set up?
The idea for eden's trust came after Elli Galvani's beautiful six-year-old daughter Eden Galvani-Skeete from Ilford, Essex, was tragically killed while enjoying a holiday with her family in July 2006.
Eden had gone to enjoy a Turkish night at the Gemini Park Resort where her family were staying.
As the night got underway a wall of fire was lit but just seconds later as a waiter went to light a second line of fire a gas canister caught alight sending a fireball into the crowd.
Little Eden bore the brunt of the explosion and was on fire from head to toe, she suffered 70% burns, two heart attacks and kidney failure before she finally died two days later on July 31.
The image of Eden and her plea to her mum not to let her die will haunt Elli Galvani forever.
Since Eden's death Elli has become painfully aware of the number of children and adults who suffer death or serious injury every year because of the lack of health and safety abroad. One of those is little Paul Gallagher from Orpington, Kent, who was killed when he was hit by a speedboat in 2002 as he was on a beach in the Bahamas, to this day his family are still fighting for justice for Paul, 2.
Because of this Elli has set up eden's trust to campaign for safer holidays.
Elli said: "I know we have a huge task ahead of us but I have a lot of support including the support of my MP Lee Scott and other families who have suffered tragedies abroad are joining forces with us to seek change".
"Please take a little time to look at eden's trust website and please don't forget to look at the dedication page so you can see how beautiful my Eden was - she was truly an angel from heaven, in her name please help us change things for the better so other families no longer have to suffer the pain we have at losing Eden."