Children's Express recently talked by telephone with several children from South Africa to find out about their lives under apartheid, or racial separation. Theona Canster, 15, lives in a township outside Cape Town. People are dying. Some of them are dying for no reason - maybe for the color of your skin or the language that you speak. And to some people, (if) you don't look good or if you d

SOUTH AFRICA In the United States, you're still technically a kid when you are 17. But in South Africa, violence forces kids to grow up faster. In the United States, we complain about things such as sharing a room with our brother or sister, getting a cold or hearing racist remarks on the street. But in South Africa, some children must live away from their families just because their house is

These are the words that a class at Allisonville Elementary School in Indianapolis tries to live by. Children's Express, curious about how third-graders could save the Earth, interviewed these children late last spring. We found that they upheld the Kids for Saving Earth promise by recycling their discards and using recyclable products, educating adults and children about environmental concer