Though the Christians are portrayed as those who want to help the Sudanese, their approach is often involuntarily counterproductive. While Achak is tied up, he tries to kick his legs against the floor so that the noise can alert his Christian neighbors that he is being robbed and needs help. He thinks that since Christian institutions are usually the ones that aide the relocated Sudanese people, they will be most likely to help him. Achak acknowledges that the Christians have good intentions, but since their lives are so different from those they are trying to help they can come off the same way. "...he had read something about the persistence of slavery in Sudan; his church was sending money to an evangelical group that was planning to travel to Sudan to buy back slaves 139)." Not only is this ironic in the sense that he is buying back slaves and therefore not really changing the industry at all, but evangelical Islamists and Arabs are the one that are destroying Sudan. Religion is a huge part of the conflict, so adding another religious group to it seems counter intuitive. They are just giving money to the slavers that capture the people, and therefore fueling the business. This is an important ironic point in the book because it exhibits how lack of experience and tunnel vision makes us look at things, even if we don't mean to. We don't really understand until we've been in their shoes.