Women & Girls
Women and girls gain menstrual health knowledge, wellbeing support and skills that convert into household income.
Empowering with Dignity sessions · Reusable pad and soap making
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Community-led change in Nepal since 1998
Building dignity, opportunity and resilience together.
Working alongside women, children and communities across Nepal.
Registered nonprofit in Nepal · Established 1998 · Registration & transparency
Nepali-founded, Nepali-run, since 1998
A small number of places, worked in repeatedly, with something durable left behind each time.
28, Calendar years since 1998, as of 2026
Calendar years since 1998
Established 1998; exact anniversary date not yet published
11, Girls supported at Sarangkot Nestling Home, as of 2025
Girls supported at Sarangkot Nestling Home
Sarangkot, as reported for 2025
60+, Households with restored water access, as of 2025
Households with restored water access
Bethanchowk water tank, completed 9 July 2025
700 m, Community access path built
Community access path built
Sarangkot; completion year not yet published
What we do
Four programmes
Children & Education
Children have a safe place to live and study, and stay in education long enough for it to change what comes next.
Sarangkot Nestling Home · Sponsorship and teacher support
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Health, Relief & Community Resilience
Communities recover faster after shocks, and keep the water, health access and infrastructure that recovery depends on.
Bethanchowk water tank · Health camps and health post support
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Culture, Environment & Dialogue
Local knowledge, waste and difficult public questions are handled openly, with communities in the room.
Waste management and composting · Roundtables, podcasts and documentaries
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Find your route in
Six kinds of visitor, six different answers
HISCUS works with funders, companies, volunteers, wards and journalists. Each needs something different first.
- Foundations, INGOs & embassiesLegal identity, delivery record, dated outcomes and the documents your due diligence needs.Start a partnership conversation
- Companies & CSR teamsFundable projects with defined outcomes, plus service days your team can actually join.Explore CSR partnership
- Individual supporters & diasporaWhat your support pays for, who receives it, and how HISCUS reports back.See what support funds
- Volunteers, students & travellersReal roles on live programmes, honest costs, and Charity Trek with Mountain Routes.See how volunteering works
- Schools, wards, health posts & CBOsHow to request a session, a health camp or an infrastructure project in your community.Propose local collaboration
- Media & researchersDocumented figures with their reporting periods, photography with credits, and a contact route.Visit media & dialogue
Current initiative
Empowering with Dignity
Menstrual health education paired with reusable pad making, run as repeat sessions in the places participants already gather.
- Ropeway Sadak
- 25 participants, 13 June 2025
- Bethanchowk
- 18 women, 28 January 2025
- Bhaktapur psychosocial session
- 20 participants, 17 March 2025
Since 2018
The Sarangkot Nestling Home
Completed on 13 April 2018 with The Nestling Trust UK. As reported for 2025, eleven girls are supported there, and two young people who grew up at the home have moved into higher education and careers.
No names, personal histories or identifying details of children are published. Imagery of children is place-based or client-confirmed for public use.
From the field
Recent reporting
Health, Relief & Community Resilience
In Bethanchowk, the water came back
Nine months of construction ended on 9 July 2025 with reliable water access restored for at least sixty households, and a pattern for how HISCUS works in one place over time.
· Bethanchowk
Women & Girls
Three sessions, sixty-three participants, one method
Ropeway Sadak, Bethanchowk and Bhaktapur ran months apart in 2025. The format that connects them is deliberately unglamorous: talk, then make something.
· Ropeway Sadak, Bethanchowk and Bhaktapur
Children & Education
Sarangkot, seven years on
The Nestling Home was completed in April 2018. In 2025 it supports eleven girls, and two young people who grew up there have moved into higher education and careers.
· Sarangkot
Get involved
Trek. Serve. Sustain.
Trekking in Nepal with Mountain Routes, combined with service days on the trails, in schools and at community sites.
Trek
A route in Nepal with an established trekking partner.
Serve
Trail cleanup, school maintenance, classroom painting and library development.
Sustain
The work goes into places HISCUS already supports, and is maintained after.
Gallery
From programme days
Fund a programme, contribute your time, or deliver alongside us.
Every route in starts as a direct conversation, not a form that disappears.
Accountability
- District Administration Office registration
- 742/054/55
- Social Welfare Council affiliation
- 7408
- PAN
- 302144668
Annual reports and audited financials are not published here yet. Funders who need them for due diligence can request them directly.