Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – Gay rights activist and staunch supporter of LGBT Alice Nkom addresses an audience in Portland today.

On the occasion that marks the 60th anniversary of the World Affairs Council of Oregon’s International Visitor Program Alice Nkom famous gay rights activist from Cameroon addresses an audience in Portland sharing some remarkable stories on experiences that she has had working for LGBT rights in her homeland Cameroon.

Human rights activist and lawyer Alice Nkom who has been working tirelessly for improving the living conditions of LGBT people in her country Cameroon will share her experiences tonight February 22 — at 7 p.m. at The Benson (309 SW Broadway).

In 2003, Nkom was a very prominent delegate in an International Visitor Leadership Program on “Grassroots Democracy.” In Oregon, she was an active part of the Portland Bus Project — an initiative directed towards improving interaction, inspiring youngsters to be politically active and to foster the growth of a grassroots progressive movement. Taking inspirations from her experiences in Oregon she has been working towards setting up a similar initiative in her homeland of Cameroon, titled “Get on the Bus.”

The bus which is an integral part of this project functions essentially as a mobile grassroots democracy medium, which works towards broadcasting latest political news, motivating more and more people to vote and improving voter turnout.

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In tandem to her activities as a leader of the grassroots democracy movement in Cameroon, Nkom is the founder of the nonprofit Association to Defend Homosexuals (ADEFHO) and a staunch supporter of gay rights and civil freedom in the country. She had in the recent past been a victim of strong criticism and violent abuse for having secured a grant from the E.U. which was to be used towards education on gay rights issues, and had even faced charges of arrest.

In Portland Nkom’s will be talking about her life and work and also of the motive of WAC’s International Visitors Program around the globe and the effects that it has created so far.

The event is a fundraiser to aid the International Visitor Program and promote exchange between the Oregon Bus Project and Get on the Bus in Cameroon.