Goals

Below are our goals for January. We have accomplished a lot this month and are happy with our progress. Some of the objectives that we have identified in the past we are still working on and are listed here. There are others that are new and we will continue to work on in the future.

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. Expand Tinkuy Peru’s humanitarian objective by creating a new non-for-profit organization called the Andean Outreach Program. (See AOP goals below)
11. Design and implement an alternate living situation to increase the amount of volunteers that Tinkuy can sustain and increase privacy for the Tinoco family.
12. Get N.G.O. status in Peru so we can apply for Peruvian grants and other types of support.
13. Find other partners to work with us in the Huancayan community.
14. Start a satellite program in agricultural communities.
15. 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. Have better class records so new volunteers are better to take over classes.
8. 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. Fumigate and solve the bug infestation problem in the orphan’s houses.
2. Determine how to help subsidize the cost of cooking gas each month.
3. Have a live guitar show for the kids.
4. Fix the walls and roof of the existing house.
5. Help fix the water supply problem.
6. Design a new house for the orphans.
7. Design and build a playground or play area for the orphans.
8. Develop a cooking/baking program.

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

1. Create an organization that works in the United States and Peru to support humanitarian work in poor Peruvian communities in the Andes Mountains.
2. Apply for a 501 (c) 3 non-for-profit organizational status in the United States that will work to support the humanitarian activities of the Tinkuy Peru volunteer program.
3. Obtain a ONG (Non Governmental Organization) status in Peru that is recognized by the Peruvian government and will be able to receive aid from the Peruvian Federal government.
4. Identify the most serious problems in the Peruvian communities of the Andean Mountains and write clear work objectives to work with these problems.
5. Write a mission statement.
6. Find organizations in the community to partner with to achieve our organizational goals.
7. Create an organizational diagram that is clear.
8. Create and implement a six month work plan to sustain the organization.
9. Create an organizational informational webpage that incorporates and expands the existing structure of the Tinkuy Peru website.
10. Work with the following problems in the Andeas: Improving the quality of education, improving the life of orphaned children, working with abused women, working with young/pregnant mothers, sex education, improving infrastructure in poor areas, helping with agricultural problems, counseling alcoholics, and decreasing the infant mortality rate.
11. In the long term, fundraise, design, and construct a community center in which to run the program.