What it does
CoreServe moves laptops, monitors, and tuition money to students in The Gambia and Nigeria.
CoreServe Foundation is a 501(c)(3) education nonprofit I started in high school. We take working equipment that sits unused in the US and get it to our partner school in The Gambia and our partner orphanage in Lagos, and we fund scholarships because secondary school isn’t free in The Gambia.
Sparking hope in the next generation.
02 · The gap
Working laptops sit in drawers here, and classrooms there go without them.
In the United States, working laptops sit in drawers, monitors get replaced every few years, and kids outgrow clothes that still have years of use left.
In Tujereng and Lagos, the same equipment is what a computer lab gets built from. The students there have the same talent as anyone I grew up with in Maryland; what they’re missing is the tools.
03 · What we do
Four areas of work.
01
Education
Scholarships and equipment for students, including 8 scholarships so far.
02
Health
Working with communities to keep kids mentally and physically healthy.
03
Wellbeing
Meeting the needs local families tell us about, instead of the ones we’d guess from Maryland.
04
Awareness
Helping kids see what options exist, since it’s hard to aim for something you’ve never heard of.
04 · Where we work
Two countries, two partners.
The Gambia
Tujereng Secondary School
A public secondary school and our first partner. We fund scholarships there, and our first tech donation (8 laptops) got from Baltimore to Tujereng in 9 days in August 2025.
Lagos, Nigeria
Motherless Babies Orphanage
A home for orphaned and abandoned children in Lagos. We’ve worked with them since my first visit in December 2023.
Rice University
A Rice chapter, approved in Spring 2026.
McDonogh, MD
The McDonogh School chapter, run by students at my old high school.
Maryland HQ
Registered in Maryland. The IRS determination letter is dated April 25, 2023.
05 · Story
Why this work is personal.
started
My mom is from The Gambia and my dad is from Nigeria, and for as long as I can remember my family has gone back. My parents made a point of showing me the rural areas where they grew up: the streets, the classrooms, the conditions.
What I kept noticing was that the kids I met had the same talent and drive as anyone I knew in the US, and far less to work with.
Back home, working equipment sat in drawers. That gap seemed fixable, so I started working on it in 2021, and CoreServe became an official 501(c)(3) in April 2023.
Dinobi Offurum joined early as co-founder and COO. Our first two partners, Tujereng Secondary School and the Motherless Babies Orphanage, came about the same way: we went, we listened, and we shipped what was missing.
06 · Receipts
Verifiable, on the record.
In progress
A computer lab, a library, and a sports-equipment program are in development. We also run an eBay for Charity store where net proceeds go to CoreServe. Most of what we move is donated equipment rather than cash.
07 · How to help
Donate equipment, support a chapter, or keep going to MO Photos.
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