Kaylie Chernotsky, 8, of Milnerton, Cape Town, loves lots of things, from nature to art, gymnastics and reading stories about unicorns, bugs and fairies. She also loves the family animals, Greffette, a lady cat, and Mica and Jazzi who are dogs. She spent the school holidays in Ottawa, Canada, where she saw her Granny Madeleine, Grandpa Jim and all her cousins. She loves eating tortilla, and her favourite colour is purple.

Nature, the environment, animals and the marine life are Emer Butler’s most important things. She lives in Krugersdorp and says: “I would like to help save, and hopefully ‘re-breed’ extinct animals and plants.” She is also very involved, together with her mother, in charity work, raising funds, collecting old clothes and giving them to those who need them. Emer’s ambition when she grows up, is to be a UN (United Nations) Ambassador
and help poorer countries where there are so many homeless, hungry adults and children who are unable to go to school. “Most of all, I would like to try to put a stop to the whale hunts in Iceland, and to encourage factories to put filters on their pumps so that waste is not pumped into the air.” Why does she care so much? “I feel I’ve become a better and kinder person, and also stronger.”