This lady, Cicilia, was riding along on the back of a Mosquito – these ubiquitous 50 cc motorbikes that scurry around the pot holes that make up Angola’s roadways. Her husband was driving, carrying their son on the handlebars. With one stout, unexpected jolt the lady was thrown to the rocks, lacerating her thigh and fracturing her forearm. Scholarly analyses of health problems in low resource communities rarely mention the roles played by trauma, yet falls and burns are plentiful, leading to long-term disability and frequent death. Cicilia’s laceration is infected and her fracture is open, making in all likelihood for a recovery of some months.