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American YouTuber Rachel Accurso, who runs the beloved children’s channel Ms Rachel, highlighted that children in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and Mali were facing food insecurity and did not have anything to eat.

In an Instagram post, the popular kids content creator said, “It’s not right that children don’t have food. We need to do better for our world’s precious children.”

Accurso, in her caption, detailed that in Gaza, a recent report showed that 90 per cent of the population was facing extreme food insecurity, and one in three children under two years of age were acutely malnourished in northern Gaza.

She added that due to the conflict in Sudan, the country was experiencing the world’s largest hunger crisis with more than 25 million people facing acute hunger.

“And even worse: famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which is a refugee camp in the North Darfur Region that is home to hundreds of thousands of people.”

Accurso continued that in Haiti 5.4 million people — nearly half the population — did not have enough to eat, and that hundreds of thousands of children were suffering from malnutrition.

“Mali — a land-locked country in Africa faced with high food prices, climate extremes and conflict which have pushed over a million people into food insecurity. Mali also hosts over 350,000 internally displaced people, half of whom are children who rely heavily on humanitarian food assistance.”

She said that while world hunger might feel like an unsolvable issue, people could make a difference, adding that the United Nations World Food Programme was working in these regions and other places to provide food for those in need.

Accurso put a link on her Instagram page where people could learn about the programme and how they could contribute to it.

In May, Accurso faced backlash after she launched a campaign to raise funds for children in distress in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan.

In a tearful video shared to her Instagram account, Accurso said she was facing severe bullying for not caring about “all children”. The criticism came after she did not include Israeli children in her campaign.

Despite the backlash, Accurso, whose YouTube videos boast hundreds of millions of views, raised over $50,000 in a few hours through her campaign.