It's hard to believe, only yesterday it was a tiny little pink
blob oozing gunge from its vents and dribbling all over the
furniture, but now the Paramo Cascada is a mighty ten years
old.
That
might not sound much, but in the world of outdoor clothing, ten years
is the equivalent of at least 50 of your human years, maybe more. In
that time, the Cascada has become Paramo's best-selling jacket, as
well as its longest-running, with more than 43,000 of the things
emerging from Paramo's Colombian maternity ward to wander
condensation-free across the hills complete with UK-friendly pockets,
hood and the Paramo Nikwax Analogy fabric.
The Colombian reference is no joke either, most Paramo clothing is
produced in Colombia in conjunction with the charitable Miquelina
Foundation with real benefits for underprivileged Colombian
families.
According to the company, that means over the last ten years, 320
women per year have been trained in outdoors clothing making. Some 17
houses have been built through their women's co-operative, 100
under-fives attend a nursery daily, 400 children eat daily at a
canteen set up by Mother Superior Esther Castagno, who has won three
awards from the Colombian government for her work.
So happy birthday to the Cascada and the Paramo clothing system as
a whole. More information at www.paramo.co.uk
