Year: 2025

Summer 2025 – How I’ll Get there

Steve Whitener

Monday, July 7, 2025

3:22 PM SAN to DFW on American Airlines flight 2885

10:50 PM DFW to Doha, Qatar on Qatar Airways

Arrive late on Tuesday, July 8

(I will be taking advantage of Qatar Airways’  free stopover in Doha, Qatar)

  • 100 degrees plus in Doha, so museum visits

Thursday, July 10, 2025

6:45 PM Doha, Qatar to Nairobi, Kenya on Qatar Airways; arrive 11:50 PM

Due to arriving so late I will stay overnight at an airport hotel

Rafiki Village Kenya

July 11-August 3, 2025

Monday, August 3

Nairobi, Kenya to Kigali, Rwanda

Leave Nairobi 1:20 PM; arrive

Kigali 1:50 PM (time change)

Kenya Airways

Rafiki Village Rwanda

August 3-September 26, 2025

Thursday, September 25, 2025

4:25 PM Kigali to Doha on RwandAir

1:20 AM Doha to DFW on Qatar Airways

Friday, September 26

1:33 PM DFW to SAN on American Airlines flight 1939; Arrival into SAN at 2:30 PM

So you want to help?

Steve Whitener

(AKA paying to keep Steve out of the USA for the summer)

Go to my page at Rafiki Foundation’s official site (link below). Contributions are used for travel and daily expenses required by Rafiki. Rafiki requires their volunteer short-term missionaries to fund their own transportation to the Village as well as pay a daily fee (that covers meals and housing at the Village). Transportation is about $2,000 and the room and board fee is $30 per day (so a little over $4,700 in total). Should there be a balance in my fund at the end of my service, these funds will be used for Rafiki’s programs.

https://rafikifoundation.org/missionary/steve-whitener-m3318

Just so you know, my service to Rafiki will happen with or without outside financial assistance.