PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – CONCACAF boss Jack Warner was scheduled to visit disaster-stricken Haiti yesterday to view the havoc wreaked on the football fraternity there by the recent massive earthquake.

The Caribbean football mogul will assess the scale of the damage in a trip that will be a follow-up to one made by Caribbean Football Union vice-president Captain Horace Burrell of Jamaica days after the earthquake occurred.

“I vowed to visit my colleagues in Haiti; our family has suffered tremendously,” Warner said.

“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.”

Football’s world governing body, FIFA, have already thrown their financial support behind relief efforts in Haiti, donating US$250 000 to the ongoing humanitarian programme.

Warner, a FIFA vice-president, donated US$100 000 of his own money while another FIFA vice-president Chung Moon-Joon vowed to donate US$500 000 of his personal funds.

“Captain Burrell’s report tugged at my heartstrings. It is from this report that I learned that 30 members of my family, our family, the football community perished in the earthquake,” Warner said.

“The last time I spoke with president Yves Jean Bart (of the Haiti Football Federation), he informed me that in addition to the confirmed causalities, a number of our colleagues remain unaccounted for.”

Warner will return home today before leaving tomorrow for a FIFA meeting in Zurich.