It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Furthermore, the CIA instructed the contras to destroy and sabotage economic and social targets such as lumber yards, coffee processing plants, electrical generating stations, farms, cooperatives, food storage facilities, health centers, including a particular effort to dusrupt the coffee harvests through attacks on coffee cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters.

Food was also important ; early Apollo crews complained about its quality, and a NASA volunteer found living on the Apollo food for four days on Earth to be intolerable ; its taste and composition, in the form of cubes and squeeze tubes, were unpleasant.

His volunteer coach, Bob Granger, had earned his fare to the Canadian championships in eastern Canada by working on the train serving food in exchange for passage.

The Watchtower Society ( a legal entity of Jehovah's Witnesses ) has operated the facility since 1963, initially to produce food cost-effectively for volunteer workers at its offices and printeries in Brooklyn, New York.

Bruderhof members serve on school boards, volunteer at prisons and hospitals, and work with local social service agencies to provide food and shelter for those in need of help.

He is also the first to volunteer tasting food or drink that appears disgusting, and later proclaims it to be " blinding ", as he literally loses his vision.

By offering freedom to Helots and monetary rewards to free men who would volunteer to carry food across to the island, the Spartans were able to bring in a small but critical stream of food.

Worshippers are offered Karah Parshad ( sweet flour and ghee-based food offered as prashad ) in the worship hall, which is usually given into cupped hands by a sewadar ( gurdwara volunteer ).

Many volunteer bodies organised blockade-breaking relief flights into Biafra, carrying food, medicines, and sometimes ( according to some claims ) weapons.

The union established an efficient system of relief committees, soup kitchens, and food distribution stations, while volunteer doctors provided medical care.

Some of the measures suggested and under implementation are elaborated as a ) to provide effective protection, b ) developing and maintaining high places with adequate protection and food material to provide protection to the animals in case of flash flood, c ) increasing area under phumdis in the park, d ) preventing theft of phumdis and flow or part of phumdis towards northern side, e ) stopping completely the collection of firewood, food and fodder, f ) creating an environment in which local people volunteer as natural custodian of Sangai and other animals in the park, g ) to encourage ecotourism and nature education, h ) to undertake, aid, promote and co – ordinate research works, i ) capacity building, training, awareness and extension activities, j ) launching packaging and publicity campaign and j ) propagating ethnic information, exhibition and soforth.

After a visit from a North Korean Political Officer, who attempted to persuade them to volunteer to join a prisoner-of-war group known as " Peace Fighters " ( that is, active participants in the propaganda movement against their own side ) with a promise of better food, of medical treatment and other amenities as a reward for such activity-an offer that was refused unanimously-he decided to order his men to pretend to accede to the offer in an effort to save their lives.

VFW members mentor youth groups, help in community food kitchens, volunteer in blood drives and visit hospitalized veterans.

* Days of Caring-Legg Mason ’ s longest running volunteer program, Days of Caring is a series of community-based volunteer opportunities at places such as food banks, eldercare facilities, parks, and nature care facilities.

In modern use, for example, a meitheal could be a party of neighbours and friends invited to help decorate a house in exchange for food and drink, or in scouting, where volunteer campsite wardens maintain campsites around Ireland.

Members can volunteer at local canneries and farms to help produce food for the needy.

Today a core volunteer committee of 30 work year-round planning a multitude of activities: the big Saturday parade, the kid's parade, the Newark Mile race, multi-stages of entertainment, arts & crafts booths, food and game booths, carnival, special theme areas, contests, children's activities, senior's dance and bingo.

Some foodbanks receive a substantial proportion of their food from individual donors, including their volunteer workers.

Almost immediately after the festival is over, the pumpkins are hauled away by volunteer work crews and given to pig farmers, to use as food.

( like scraping coconut and slicing vegetables ) They also volunteer to serve the food for the hosts to the guests.

Some key dates follow: Methodist Church ( 1835 ), first store ( 1872 ), Hinckley has 20 businesses ( 1876 ), St. Paul's Church ( 1885 ), volunteer fire brigade organized ( 1886 ), tornado destroys most of village ( 1889 ).

Before North Aurora was established as a Village in 1905, there was a loosely organized volunteer fire brigade with mostly buckets and a hose cart.

Eastbourne has one volunteer fire brigade which is located in Makaro Street, near one of the three local primary schools, Muritai School.

The town is served by three banks, a post office, a supermarket, four schools ( 3 Primary, 1 Secondary ), a volunteer fire brigade, and a public library.

The unit was formerly a volunteer brigade of the North Staffordshire Regiment.

He re-enlisted as a simple volunteer in the French Armée d ' Italie, and in its campaign of 1796, he again fought his way up to high rank, being eventually made a general of brigade by orders of Bonaparte.

The Market Hall was built in 1848, and in 1863 a volunteer fire brigade was founded.

His first assignment was with a board that examined the qualifications of volunteer officers, but he soon was given command of a brigade of Pennsylvania Reserves.

Around this time the brigade was also involved in combating the Dutch Waffen-SS volunteer formation the Landstorm Nederland.

Off on a new venture, O ' Connor next planned to raise a volunteer brigade for the Queen of Spain, but abandoned this when William Cobbett died in April 1835.

In the community, Murdoch was involved with the Masonic Lodge and the Orange Order in Canada, literary and history societies, volunteer fire brigade, was one of the founders of Calgary's Presbyterian Church and the first President of the Calgary St. Andrew's Society.

In the main town of Warburg, the volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1889, and quickly thereafter, the same happened in communities throughout the Warburger Land.

Today's Warburg volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1975 by merging the town's and all newly amalgamated centres ' former volunteer fire brigades.

Adjacent Municipalities with forest heritage begin volunteer projects of surveillance by residents ( such as Pefki and Vrilissia ) while the Chalandri gully is also struck, only a few metres away from the local fire brigade department.

The Michigan Brigade, sometimes called the Wolverines, the Michigan Cavalry Brigade or Custer's Brigade, was a brigade of cavalry in the volunteer Union Army during the latter half of the American Civil War.

Coldstream has an active CFA ( Country Fire Authority ) volunteer fire brigade established after the serious fires of 1962.

Lilydale has an active CFA ( Country Fire Authority ) volunteer fire brigade, first established in 1905.

Mount Martha is home to a volunteer CFA fire brigade responding on average to 180 calls a year for assistance from the community.

The fire brigade is volunteer based and responds to calls 24 / 7 in the Rye area and surrounding areas.

The town has a local volunteer ( CFA ) fire brigade as well as a limited hours Police station.

Diamond Creek also has a busy CFA ( Country Fire Authority ) volunteer fire brigade, which attends to over 230 emergency calls annually.

Sent by Garibaldi to Tuscany, he attempted to invade the Papal States with a volunteer brigade, but his followers were disarmed and disbanded by Ricasoli and Cavour.

In 1862 he was with Garibaldi at Aspromonte ; in 1866 he commanded a volunteer brigade against Austria ; in 1867 he invaded the Papal States from the south, but the defeat of Garibaldi at Mentana put an end to his enterprise.