Goals

Goals:

Below are our goals for February. We have accomplished a lot this month and are happy with our progress.

Tinkuy Peru Volunteer Program:

1. Create unified English as a Second Language curriculum that will create consistency and easy transition for all future volunteers. Document this curriculum with lessons and add it to the Tinkuy Peru website so all volunteers can have access to it before they arrive in country.
2. Re-design the Tinkuy Peru website with graphics and information that is clear and concise, for prospective volunteers. Add information about financials, excursions, curriculum, library, class terms, orphanage projects, and former volunteer information.
3. Improve online application form.
4. Create an HTML email reply to accepted volunteers that is clear and offers more information on how they are supposed to proceed after being accepted to our organization.
5. Create a digital information package to help prepare new volunteers for their experience before they arrive.
6. Create a “hard copy” welcome package to help new volunteers orient themselves in Huancayo, gives them direction on their volunteer assignment, and gets them oriented to the program and the culture.
7. Collaborate with other volunteer programs and foreign Universities and Colleges.
8. Make Tinkuy Peru T-shirts!
9. Create website for Tino to help sell his art across the world and better fund the programs.
10. Get N.G.O. status in Peru so we can apply for Peruvian grants and other types of support.
11. Find other partners to work with us in the Huancayan community.
12. Start a satellite program in agricultural communities.
13. Create logo for Tinkuy Peru.

The New Andean School for English:

1. Create unified English as a Second Language curriculum for a more consistent English program for students.
2. Provide more information to volunteers and local people about the school.
3. Create lesson plans and exams that are consistent with the curriculum. Grade the student’s performance and review progress with the parents.
4. Create a computer lab in the new location so we can teach using computers and teach basic typing and office application skills.
5. Renovate our new location in the next two months.
6. Create a drama program so we can offer plays for the students to participate in.
7. Offer art classes for kids in the new location.

The Aldea del Rosario Orphanage:

1. Create an organized English class within the orphanage that has set times and students and that follow the Tinkuy Peru curriculum.
2. Create a method for helping cultivate and clean the guinea pig farm and continue to work on there on their produce farm.
3. Paint murals on the outside of the bunk house.
4. Improve the hygiene and cleanliness of the living conditions for the orphans.
5. Create and implement a six month stability plan for volunteer work and support for the Aldea.
6. Organize and implement alternate activities, other than working with the children, to help the orphanage.
7. Finish the water reclamation project so the bathrooms and kitchens have consistent clean water.
8. Finish the play fields project.
9. Expand the bakery program and have orphans work in the café at the Andean School.
10. Establish a career counseling program for kids who are approaching 18 years.
11. Establish a scholarship fund for kids leaving the Aldea.

The Aldea del Fransesca Mayer Orphanage:

1. Determine how to help subsidize the cost of cooking gas each month.
2. Have a live guitar show for the kids.
3. Fix the walls and roof of the existing house.
4. Help fix the water supply problem.
5. Design a new house for the orphans.
6. Design and build a playground or play area for the orphans.
7. Develop a cooking/baking program.

Andean Outreach Program (A.O.P.): Programa Andina Ayuda

1. On hold until further notice.