Water shortage stalls Ellis' dinkgwana project

About 20 years ago, Ellis started a dinkgwana manufacturing project at Magodiri cattle post at the Kanye periphery. Her aim was to manufacture these cultural storage items and sell them both locally and internationally.

The project has since been suspended because of water shortage. At the time the project started, Ellis had employed 22 women and five men. They were fetching water about 10km at the time everyday until she realised that she was not going to cope. "It is a very sad situation because that project was labour intensive.  It created employment around that area and people were working within the vicinity of heir home villages," she told Arts & Culture. She also said the project used to attract even the foreign tourists who came to witness the manufacturing of one of the items that define the olden Botswana.