Less than a week after donating US$100,000 towards the relief efforts in earthquake devastated Haiti, Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has seen his call to the worldwide football community bring about more suppport. Fifa has responded, pledging US$250,000 to relief efforts while Fifa vice-president Chung Moon-Jung has pledged US$.5 million of his personal funds to assist in ongoing disaster relief efforts in the Caribbean nation. Warner has described the gesture as " a true representation of Fifa's principles."
Warner said, "I contacted both Fifa president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Moon-Jung on this matter last week. "I explained the urgency and the gravity of the situation which has befallen our Caribbean brothers. I would like to thank both of them for their compassion and generosity." Confirmation of the pledges, came in the form of two emails to the Concacaf president Jack Warner from Blatter and Moon Jung yesterday morning. Warner also said that a report was submitted to Fifa officials on Sunday night by CFU vice-president Captain Horace Burrell of Jamaica, following his visit to the island on Sunday.