FIFA vice-president Trinidadian Jack Warner will be heading a delegation to Haiti today to assess the level of damage not only to the football infrastructure, but the nation on a whole following the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck over two weeks ago.

Immediately following the disaster, Warner issued an international call to the football community to support relief efforts and that call resulted in a pledge from the FIFA of US$250,000. FIFA vice-president Dr Chung Moon-Joon committed US$500,000 of his personal funds.

Warner, also the president of CONCACAF and the CFU, has thrown in US$100,000 of his own money toward the relief efforts.

“I vowed to visit my colleagues in Haiti, our family has suffered tremendously. It is not only the football family that has suffered, but a nation has been ripped apart. It is a humanitarian crisis and we must never turn a blind eye on the fate that has befallen our brothers and sisters,” said Warner, who will fly into Port-au-Prince by private jet this morning.

Last week, Warner sent the CFU’s senior vice-president Jamaican Captain Horace Burrell on a fact-finding mission to the ravaged country, and the latter returned with a gut-wrenching report that stated that more than 30 football officials had perished in the quake with dozens more still unaccounted for.