Big Kenny Alphin, who makes up one-half of Big & Rich, premiered a movie at the Nashville Film Festival Wednesday night in his continuing effort to aid the victims of a 20-year-old civil war in Africa.

Bearing Light: A Journey To Sudan documents Big Kenny's trip with wife Christiev Carothers to the southern part of the nation, where the population is struggling to overcome the loss of lives and property during the war. The couple were part of an entourage of nine people who brought supplies to aid an Akon Village girls' school, which has grown from 200 students to more than 1,000. Wearing a safari jacket with the Big & Rich slogan "Love Everybody," Kenny brought aid, compassion, entertainment and a doctor, who tended to 146 patients in just two days. One-third of the population suffers from malaria, and one of the crew members contracted the disease on the journey.

An estimated 200,000 - 400,000 people were slaughtered in the war, according to the film, leaving many children without parents. Large numbers of them were taken as slaves as a result.

"I cannot believe to save my life there's still slavery on our globe," Big Kenny said during a question-and-answer session after the screening.

Big Kenny urged people who want to help to visit www.mskeepers.org.

"These women," Big Kenny said in the film, "don't want to see their children die, and I don't think that's too much to ask."