The company sponsored a house for Habitat for Humanity. This sponsorship included both a cash sponsorship of R50 000 ($7 700) which paid the costs of one house, as well as Monsanto employees volunteering to build the house. One week was set aside for this project as it was felt that a house could be built in this time with a minimum of 10 volunteers per day.

The project began on Monday 7th June and in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity a number of professional builders were employed on the project. The volunteers - Monsanto employees - were "employe" as the manual labour and were asked to mix cement, move bricks, mix concrete, tidy the building site and also managed to lay a few bricks as the walls were progressing.

For many of the Monsanto employees this was the first opportunity that they had had to enter a township and for most this was indeed a huge eye-opener. Many of the people living in Ivory Park are unemployed and live in informal dwellings and are living on the poverty borderline.

The house, which Monsanto built, was for Sipho and Elizabeth Dlamini. They had previously been living in an informal dwelling at the back of the property. In terms of the requirements of Habitat for Humanity, at least one partner has to be working and therefore able to repay the monthly installment for the house; they have to assist others with building houses before their house gets built and they have to assist further potential house owners after their house is complete.

Within the allotted 5 days, much was achieved, although the house was not completely finished. By Friday afternoon, the roof still needed completing, plastering the inside walls, and the electrics needed to be completed. The keys to the house were handed to the new owners who were speechless as this was the first proper house they had ever had.