Pamoja

Branch

Social cohesion

Social cohesion built through practice rather than programming: shared meals, rituals, and dialogue where trust grows because people make something together and nobody arrives as a case to be managed.

A hand pours coffee from a gold jebena into a small white cup at the Coffee Social, with the partner logos below. Coffee Social at McMaster University Black Student Success Centre lounge, McMaster University · 2025 · Video Neighbours seated on chairs and blankets in John Rebecca Park, lending their ears to place-conscious dialogue under a young tree. Coffee Ritual & Place-Conscious Dialogue John Rebecca Public Park, Hamilton · September 2025 Participants of the first Two Row Citizens gathering standing and sitting together on blankets on the grass at Churchill Park, a greenhouse behind them. Treaty Neighbours Churchill Park, Hamilton · 2024 & 2025 Neighbours seated in a circle of garden chairs at the Community Permaculture Lab; a table of glasses, mugs and a flask of tea in the foreground. Pamoja Tea Gatherings Community Permaculture Lab, Hamilton · Every two weeks since 2023