Tonight, Missouri Southern student Colby Williams and Ozark Christian College student Tresor Yenyi are throwing a party to launch their new organization.”It’s Mwangaza International,” said Williams, a senior mass communications major. “It’s really phonetic. It’s Swahili for ‘shining light’ or ‘beacon.'”The organization is focused on bringing aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo.”The Congo has been called the heart of darkness because of corruption, genocide and all sorts of crazy stuff, so we hope it is the opposite of that,” Williams said. The organization has been around for some time. Yenyi founded the organization several years back in the Congo with 60 volunteers. The organization began distributing clothing, offering counseling and providing food for citizens, orphans and victims of war.”Millions of children have been displaced,” Williams said. “Militias will come into a village and run, so they don’t have a home any more, or they come in, kill all the men, rape all the women and take all the children, turning them into child soldiers.”The aftermath of the militias entering the cities is devastating. Cities are reduced to nothing. Women are rejected from the cities because they are considered unclean after being raped by militias. The militias continue fighting because they don’t know how to do anything else.”When the cities come back together,” Williams said, “the women get rejected from society. They come back with diseases or are pregnant or have been with men from the militias, even if they didn’t want to. Their villages reject them. They don’t accept their illegitimate children either so they are just left to figure it out on their own or a lot of them end up on the streets.”The militias don’t know what they’re fighting for. It’s all for power or something.”Williams said the main drive behind the organization is Yenyi’s heart.”He grew up hearing the bombs,” he said. “He remembers fleeing in the middle of the night with his family to another house so he has the heart and the experience and has been over there helping kids for a while now.”It just seems to work.”The Mwangaza Inter-national party will begin at 8 p.m. tonight at Momentum 8 Studio, located at 809 N. Main in Joplin.