The Secretary-General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti on Saturday to visit areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew as an appeal body to raise funds for the Caribbean nation arrecadava much less than expected.
Ban will visit Les Cayes - one of the cities hardest hit by Matthew in southern Haiti - and will meet with Haitian authorities, his office said.
The UN launched an emergency call to raise 120 million dollars to help Haiti overcome its worst humanitarian crisis since the 2010 earthquake.
To date, were only collected 6.1 million dollars, only 5% of the total needed, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
At least 473 people died when Matthew hit southern Haiti, on October 4, as a powerful Category 4 hurricane (maximum of 5), with winds of 230 kilometers per hour.
Ban said on Monday that a "massive response" was needed to overcome the destruction, as there are 1.4 million people in need of urgent help after towns and villages were erased from the map.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council decided to extend the mandate of the mission of peacekeepers in Haiti, MINUSTAH, for another six months, until April 2017.
The head of MINUSTAH, Sandra Honore, said before the Council this week that this extension would help Haiti cope with the humanitarian crisis and ensure political stability after the elections were postponed after the passage of Matthew.
Ban will also travel to Ecuador to attend the Habitat III conference on sustainable urban development.
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