The thesis
“I found a gap in service. Now we close it.”
CoreServe Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity. We move underused US resources — laptops, monitors, electronics, clothing — to communities across The Gambia and Nigeria, where the same goods unlock opportunity.
Sparking hope in the next generation.
02 · The gap
Surplus on one continent. Scarcity on another. The fix is logistics, not luck.
In the United States, working laptops sit in drawers. Monitors get replaced annually. Children outgrow clothes that still have years of use. The waste is quiet, but it’s constant.
In rural Gambia and parts of Nigeria, the same goods aren’t replacements — they’re unlocks. A monitor becomes a classroom. A laptop becomes literacy. The gap isn’t talent. It’s tools.
03 · What we do
Four pillars. One mission.
01
Education
Providing resources and instruction to empower the education of children in need. The first compounding investment.
02
Health
Working with communities to ensure children are mentally and physically healthy. The foundation that makes everything else possible.
03
Wellbeing
Working with local communities to meet the needs of local children and families — surfaced from the ground, not assumed from afar.
04
Awareness
Helping children learn what the world offers and what options they have. Possibility starts with knowing it exists.
04 · Where we work
Two countries, named partners, real operations.
The Gambia
Tujereng Upper & Secondary School
A public-school partnership extending into broader community support — beyond academics, into the conditions that make academics possible. A computer lab is in development; donations are already in transit.
Lagos, Nigeria
Lions Village Motherless Babies Orphanage
Housing for abandoned, orphaned, and homeless children of all ages. An active operating partnership since late 2023.
Rice University
CoreServe Rice — flagship university chapter, officially approved Spring 2026.
McDonogh, MD
McDonogh School chapter, led by Abu Ogunsola, Dara Oyeleye, and Chidi Onwuanibe.
Maryland HQ
Foundation registered in Maryland, April 2023. 501(c)(3) public charity.
05 · Story
Why this work is personal.
started
Mo’s parents are from Gambia and Nigeria. Growing up, the family went back regularly. Mo’s parents made a point of showing him the rural areas where they grew up — the actual streets, the actual classrooms, the actual conditions.
The pattern that kept surfacing: peers in Africa with the same talent, the same drive, the same hunger as anyone he knew in the US — handicapped not by ability but by access. Latent potential, lost to logistics.
The realization wasn’t revolutionary, just stubborn: in the US, surplus material goods sit in drawers. In communities Mo’s family is from, the same goods unlock years of opportunity. The gap is fixable. It just needs someone to fix it.
CoreServe was founded in April 2023 to do exactly that. Mo started it; Dinobi Offurum joined early as Co-Founder and COO. The first two operating partners — Tujereng Upper & Secondary in The Gambia, and Lions Village Motherless Babies Orphanage in Lagos — came from the same playbook: go where the need is, listen, ship the resource that closes the gap.
06 · Receipts
Verifiable, on the record.
In flight
40 monitors awaiting transit to West Africa. 30+ Apple laptops donated to date. A computer lab under development for Tujereng. The funding model leans on in-kind material donations rather than cash — surplus on one continent, structure on another.
07 · How to help