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Luna, Hidalgo and Grant County community members are launching the Get Out the Count (GOTC) campaign, a program aimed at getting families in these three counties to participate in the 2020 Census.
The GOTC program includes educational components and canvassing to reach these historically difficult to count areas.
"The census isn’t only vital for our families to receive the resources that we’ve inherently deserve. But for rural communities like Lordsburg and other communities here in our part of the state, this could decide if we’re still around in the next 10 years," Pastor Joseph Hill of Assembly of God Church said In a statement from NM CAFé.
The campaign, which will run through May, encourages New Mexicans, no matter their race, immigration status or age to fill out the Census and help their community get resources.
NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fé (CAFé) is the largest faith-based grassroots movement organizing historically marginalized communities in Southern New Mexico.
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