San communities resettled at the Skoonheid resettlement area in the Omaheke region through the Livelihood Support Programme (LISUP) had their first 'Harvest Day' and art exhibition on 28 April. San communities are well known for their nomadic lifestyle and before LISUP they had no entrepreneurial skills on how they could use their artwork to financial empower the nomadic people. Katrina Plaatjies, a San, is using various bead and salt bags to made ornaments and clothes.

Katrina Plaatjies, a San, is making ornaments and clothing items using beads and salt bags.

She said San people have even made jackets with salt bags. These only require wool to stitch the bags together and a few yards of material to ensure that the jackets are insulated against cold weather.
Plaatjies said the women involved in artwork also make clothes for themselves with various types of material.
She said these artistry clothes designs could be regarded as traditional San attire.
Plaatjies said the community uses different types of material they get to make clothes, bed linen and produce jewellery and other crafts.
She said she joined the project in 1993 and has never turned back. The community keeps the clothes for itself and only sells the jewellery and craftwork. Plaatjies said the community is well supported and assisted by a donor agency that sells the jewellery and crafts to tourists.
She said the income generated is used to buy food, but the community does live from whatever else it can get.
The Skoonheid resettlement programme was initiated with the objectives of reducing poverty, enhancing food security and self-reliance for this nomadic group, according to LISUP.
Through the LISUP project, the San people are encouraged to grow crops, manage livestock and traditional crafts for their own benefit and also as a means of generating income.