Work on the Bethanchowk water tank started in October 2024 and finished on 9 July 2025. At completion, at least sixty households had reliable water access again.
What makes the project worth reading about is not only the tank. It is the sequence around it.
One community, several visits
On 1 January 2025, while the tank was still under construction, HISCUS delivered support to the Bethanchowk health post. Four weeks later, on 28 January, eighteen women in the same community took part in an Empowering with Dignity session on menstrual health and reusable pad making.
By the time the tank was finished, the organisation had been present in Bethanchowk across three different kinds of work in nine months. The people who would use and maintain the water system already knew who had built it.
Why it holds
Infrastructure that arrives once and leaves does not tend to survive its first repair. Infrastructure planned alongside the health post and the women's sessions belongs to a community that has reason to keep it working.
That is the standard HISCUS applies elsewhere: after the Thapathali floods in October 2024, the response included clothing support for affected children and a community water-storage tank. Again, something durable left behind.
