victor duarte vazquez is with somos mayfair, and jazmin hernandez carbajal is with veggielution, kind a collaborative here of both groups, correct? jazmin carbajal: correct. damian: all right, welcome to the show. victor vazquez: oh, thank you for inviting us. damian: so, we have some, you know, wonderful video, of course, of census takers and whatnot. talk about the biggest challenges that you're facing, especially in the mayfair community. victor: yeah, right now, we have 30% response rate. it's very low compared to other communities of 70%. and we feel like it has to do with a lot with like

victor duarte vazquez is with somos mayfair, and jazmin hernandez carbajal is with veggielution, kind a collaborative here of both groups, correct? jazmin carbajal: correct. damian: all right, welcome to the show. victor vazquez: oh, thank you for inviting us. damian: so, we have some, you know, wonderful video, of course, of census takers and whatnot. talk about the biggest challenges that you're facing, especially in the mayfair community. victor: yeah, right now, we have 30% response rate. it's very low compared to other communities of 70%. and we feel like it has to do with a lot with like miseducation, but also just fear that we have right now in our community to come out and make ourselves be counted. damian: yeah, well, talk about veggielution, and who you are, and about why this collaboration makes sense. jazmin: yeah, sure; veggielution is a community urban farm. and we connect individuals from the community through food and farming, and we're part of the si se puede collective, which is five east san jose-based nonprofit organizations. and we're here together to talk about t