census

We are here today as part of the mission district complete count committee This is the third event that we've had in march to get the word out about the 2010 census and make sure that the mission gets counted and particularly today we're focusing on the yucatecan mayan community It's very very important that they get counted because up until now there's been unofficial estimates of what the community is and they are that there are in between 10 to 15 thousand in the bay area helping our community of yucatecan area mostly they all live in 16th and mission, most of them and our office is right across from here we have mayan, yucatecan they speak mayan dialect and we have huichol, another dialect part of mexico but it's more from Chiapas and we also have folks from guatemala also helping their people in their own language to fill out the form for the census.