The EyeBuild volunteers are among the more than 20,000 expected attendees of the AAO’s annual meeting here from Nov. 10 to 13. 
 
 “The Academy developed EyeBuild in response to numerous requests from our members for a community service project in New Orleans,” said H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr., MD, the AAO’s executive vice president. Added Hoskins, “We wanted to contribute to rebuilding New Orleans as one way of saying thank you for all the hospitality the city has shown us through the years.”
 
The site chosen for EyeBuild will be Musicians’ Village, which is in the Upper 9th Ward, an area hit particularly hard by the flooding. 
 
The volunteers will wear protective eyewear to highlight the results of a new survey finding that nearly half of eye injuries occur in the home and 75 percent of all injured did not wear protective eyewear.