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. Improve communication with prospective volunteers to clarify information and answer questions.
3. Improve living quarters and bathrooms for volunteers.
4. Create a volunteer resource center with a library of children’s books to help with teaching the English classes. Create a library catalogue of all donated books.
5. 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.
6. Improve online application form.
7. 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.
8. Create a digital information package to help prepare new volunteers for their experience before they arrive.
9. 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.
10. Create financial balance sheets for all three programs for all volunteers to see.
11. Collaborate with other volunteer programs and foreign Universities and Colleges.
12. Make Tinkuy Peru T-shirts!
13. Organize a volunteer meeting every week.
14. Create website for Tino to help sell his art across the world and better fund the programs.

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. Define a way to register students that is clear and consistent with all appropriate contact information.
5. Design, produce, and print marketing material to recruit students for classes.
6. Improve the physical learning environment. Clean, renovate, and decorate the current school and classrooms. Put trash cans in every room, ensure that there is a clean bathroom available, and make sure there is a clean sink with soap and towels for students to wash their hands. Fix current light fixtures and add new fixtures.
7. In the future, find a permanent location for the school, either renovate a new space or design build a new school.
8. Create extra curricular activities for students to practice their English, i.e. put on a play, create sports teams, and have art classes or a cooking party.
9. Create specialized workshops for short term volunteers to teach.

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. Design and help to build a better recreation area for orphans. A soccer field and a volleyball court with grass have been requested.
6. Create classes in art and sports for the kids. Hold practice games.
7. Help make bread and pastries in the bakery. Also, create classes for the mothers in making different types of baked goods to sell in the orphanage bakery and serve with meals.
8. Play guitar, sing songs, and teach music classes with the orphans.
9. Create a method for helping cultivate and clean the guinea pig farm.
10. Help with the planting and harvesting on the farm.
11. Paint murals on the outside of the bunk house.
12. Improve the hygiene and cleanliness of the living conditions for the orphans.
13. Hold a clothing drive and/or collect money for new clothing and shoes for the orphans.