About PATH

At Plan to Accommodate Travel Home (PATH) Inc., we envision a world where returning home is not feared, but embraced as a pathway to dignity, healing, and renewed opportunity.

Plan to Accommodate Travel Home (PATH) Inc., is a humanitarian nonprofit dedicated to supporting dignified, voluntary return home through humanitarian repatriation, counseling and emotional wellness support, temporary lodging, and reintegration services.

PATH was created to walk alongside individuals and families—especially those from West Africa—who are navigating uncertainty due to migration challenges, changing immigration systems, economic hardship, or prolonged separation from home. For many, the choice to return home is deeply personal and often misunderstood. PATH exists to ensure that this choice is supported with care, structure, and dignity, rather than fear, isolation, or forced outcomes such as deportation.

We believe that returning home should never be treated as a punishment or failure. Instead, when supported properly, it can be a pathway to healing, stability, and renewed purpose. PATH provides practical and emotional support to help individuals and families transition home safely and humanely, ensuring they are not left to navigate the process alone.

Our services are voluntary, non-political, and non-coercive. We do not participate in enforcement or deportation activities. Participation in PATH programs is always a choice, guided by informed consent and respect for personal circumstances.

Through our work, PATH helps people:

Coordinate safe and orderly travel home
Access counseling and emotional wellness support
Secure temporary lodging during early reintegration
Navigate resources and opportunities for a new start

At the heart of PATH is a simple but powerful belief:
with the right support, it may not be that bad home after all.

We invite you to visit our website to learn more about our mission, explore our services, get involved, or support our work. Together, we can restore dignity, rebuild lives, and offer a compassionate alternative rooted in choice—not deportation.

My motivation for creating the PATH Foundation is deeply personal, rooted not only in what I have witnessed in the world today but also in the history carried through my own family’s bloodline. I come from a lineage of repatriated ex-slaves. My great-great-grandparents from the Walker family in Liberia were once enslaved in the United States before they were repatriated, along with four brothers. The details of their journey have been lost to time, but one truth remains: they boarded a ship from Norfolk, Virginia, leaving behind a life of bondage and stepping into the unknown with nothing but hope and the will to survive.

When I see the current wave of deportations—people being detained, processed, and returned with little dignity, little guidance, and oftentimes no support—I cannot help but think of my ancestors. I imagine the fear they must have felt, the confusion, the uncertainty. And I see those same emotions today in the eyes of people being removed from a place they have known for years, sometimes decades. People who, regardless of circumstance, deserve to be treated as human beings.

These individuals are often sent back abruptly, without preparation, without counseling, and without the reassurance that they will not be abandoned. Many return having lost all contact with relatives and friends. They step foot on soil that is familiar in name but foreign in practice. Policies have changed, communities have shifted, and their identity and expectations may no longer align with the society they re-enter.

I founded PATH because I believe there must be a more humane way.
There must be a path home that is safer, kinder, and more dignified.

What if we could help prepare people before the crisis?
What if we could support those whose documents are expiring, those who no longer feel safe, or those who wish to return voluntarily but lack the means or guidance to navigate the process?

PATH exists to bridge that gap—
to help people plan their journey home,
to reconnect them with their roots,
to give them the emotional, logistical, and practical support they deserve,
and to stand beside them as they reintegrate into society, one step at a time.

I believe that returning home should not feel like exile.
It should feel like transition.
It should feel like someone cares enough to walk with you until you can walk on your own again.

PATH is my way of honoring my ancestors
and ensuring that the generations that follow do not have to face the unknown alone.