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Received: 6 December 2018

Accepted: 25 February 2019

First Online: 14 March 2019

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: TK is a postdoctoral fellow with the South African Research Chair: Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education University of Johannesburg. His speciality is in public health nutrition, health promotion, and nutrition education programme. He is an expert in programme monitoring and evaluation, tools development, and participatory action research. JP is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg. He is a healthcare practitioner, an expert in educational psychology, an NRF-rated researcher and currently the South African Research Chair: Education and Care in Childhood.

: The study has obtained ethical clearance from the University of Johannesburg, Faculty of Education Ethics Committee (Ethical clearance number: 2018–035) and permission will be obtained from caregivers/families of the OVC before they participate in the study.Consent to participate will be obtained from all parents/legal guardians of minors (12 to 15) included in this study. Consent to participate will be obtained from all participants 16 years old and older included in this study. The researcher will ensure that, no OVC or parents/legal guardians of minors will be allowed to participate unless they have adequate understanding of the study and give both written and oral consents to participate. The consenting subjects will be reassured of the confidentiality of their participation and their freedom of withdrawing from the study at any phase without any prejudice.

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