Nigel Fisher, caretaker of the world’s children

Nigel Fisher, a globe- and fox-trotting humanitarian, will not be able to answer this booty call in Toronto timberland euro sprint sale.

Not with 54 dead and tens of thousands homeless in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy, vital crops destroyed by the storm’s voracious winds, and the country still struggling to house 350,000 victims from the catastrophic 2010 earthquake.

So Thursday’s unveiling of the Canadian’s battered, size 11 Timberland boots at the Bata Shoe Museum &mdash timberland UK; footgear worn over two decades as he delivered aid to nearly 1 million children in the world’s most desperate places — will proceed without him.

Right now, Haiti needs the hand-picked United Nations envoy more than a news conference in downtown Toronto does.

“I don’t think we even appeared on the radar of the international media,” says the 65-year-old of the Haitians who were killed, “disappeared” or displaced in Sandy’s rampage.

“My wife (Patsy) just happens to be in Toronto. Maybe she’ll bless my boots for me.”

Fisher was at his Port-au-Prince office on Wednesday at 6:30 a Timberland chukka shoes.m., juggling yet another set of crisis logistics in the hard-luck country, where he has overseen earthquake relief and recovery since 2010. A call to the Haitian prime minister was on his agenda because, in addition to handling the newest human casualties from Sandy, a food shortage now looms.

A drought early in the year stunted crops before they had a chance to mature. Then Timberland 6 inch, a damaging summer storm reduced harvest estimates by about 40 per cent — a worrisome situation even before the massive hurricane struck last week.