Asimwe Proscovia was given a new future when she was 14 years old.

Through Invisible Children, a non-profit organization seeking peace in Uganda, Proscovia was chosen to be a part of the Legacy Scholarship Program because of her level of vulnerability and academic potential.

She was mentored, given supplies and provided with an education that otherwise would have been out of reach.

“I was so happy about it. I knew I could have a future and my dreams would come true,” Proscovia said.

The Ugandan native, now 19, was raised by her grandmother. As a child, Proscovia’s father was killed in the brutal rebel warfare that has been raging in the northern area of the country since the early 1980s.

The recent graduate of Gulu Secondary School is now on the road. As part of Invisible Children’s Face-to-Face tour, she and four interns are traveling across North America.

The group will meet with students today, to share their stories and show how Invisible Children is rebuild educational programs in a region ravaged by violence.

“For me, and I think for all of us, it’s an opportunity to do something that’s bigger than ourselves. It’s an opportunity to serve,” roadie Steve Robison said.

The fall 2010 Face-to-Face Tour is Invisible Children’s eleventh to date and the second ever to include scholarship students and employees from the non-profit’s Ugandan staff.

Each stop features a screening of one of the organization’s nine documentaries and the opportunity to talk to individuals with both devastating and uplifting experiences to tell.

“Everything that’s being done is a collaboration with the people in northern Uganda to help empower them,” Middle America team leader Jenna Ingrassia said. “There’s so much media that brings it over here, but to physically bring students and employees who have lived through war and who can talk to you and share their stories face to face, it really puts a different spin on the situation. It’s just so effective.”

One such employee is Lorna Peace, a 23-year-old education assistant and former French teacher from southern Uganda. She took a semester off from university to go on tour and will finish her post-graduate degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution next November.

“It’s not just to help those right now, but it’s to help the future generation, those who will come after us,” Peace said.