WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton said this morning he'll try to pattern a disaster assistance fund for earthquake-stricken Haiti along the same lines he and former President George H.W. Bush pursued successfully for victims of the Asian tsunami.

"If you want to just give $10, you can make a huge difference because we've got another week or so of the work you see on television," Clinton said in a nationally broadcast interview.

A U.N. special envoy to Haiti, Clinton was tapped by President Barack Obama on Wednesday to work with former President George W. Bush, the son of George H.W. Bush, on a massive fundraising effort for victims of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Clinton said, "I expect we'll do something like the first President Bush and I did after the tsunami. Our goal is to raise as much money as possible and put it into the most constructive channels possible."

Clinton rejected the notion some are suggesting that there's no need to donate money to the Haiti disaster relief because U.S. tax money is already going to the effort.

"That's just not true. We give a modest amount of aid to Haiti every year, but the United States and other countries that have committed assistance have done it after Haiti, keep in mind, year before last had four hurricanes that devastated the country," he said on CBS's "The Early Show."