Goals

We worked hard in the month of November begining to work on and accomplish our October goals. Some of our November goals are carried over from October and others are new objectives. Goals that are remaining are in italics.

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. Create a six month stability/work plan to clarify Tinkuy’s direction.
12. Create a system of feedback between volunteers and administration to improve the program’s effectiveness.
13. Develop a task list with deadlines for the Tinkuy Peru administration.
14. Design and implement an alternate living situation to increase the amount of volunteers that Tinkuy can sustain and increase privacy for the Tinoco family.

The New Andean School for English:

1. Create unified English as a Second Language curriculum for a more consistent English program for students.
2. Organize class levels and clear terms and class times that students may sign up for, and that we can assign volunteers to.
3. Create lesson plans and exams that are consistent with the curriculum. Grade the student’s performance and review progress with the parents.
4. Find a permanent location for the school; either renovate a new space or design build a new school.
5.Create a website for the school that will act as a marketing, registration, and placement tool.
6. Create a six month work plan for the school.
7. Hire a secretary for the school to help register students, market the school, and provide general school maintenance.
8. Provide more information to volunteers as well as local people about the school.

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. Have students from the Aldea take classes in the New Andean School. Organize the coordination and transportation of these students.
3. Organize volunteer activities that help the children and house mothers such as cooking, cleaning, or washing clothes.
4. Organize excursions outside of the orphanage.
5. Play guitar, sing songs, and teach music classes with the orphans.
6. Create a method for helping cultivate and clean the guinea pig farm.
7. Help with the planting and harvesting on the farm.
8. Paint murals on the outside of the bunk house.
9. Improve the hygiene and cleanliness of the living conditions for the orphans.
10. Hold a clothing drive and/or collect money for new clothing and shoes for the orphans.
11. Create and implement a six month stability plan for volunteer work and support for the Aldea.
12. Organize and implement alternate activities, other than working with the children, to help the orphanage.

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.
6. Write a mission statement.
7. Find organizations in the community to partner with to achieve our organizational goals.
8. Create an organizational diagram that is clear.
9. Create and implement a six month work plan to sustain the organization.
10. Create an organizational informational webpage that incorporates and expands the existing structure of the Tinkuy Peru website.
11. 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.
12. In the long term, fundraise, design, and construct a community center in which to run the program.