For Abbas and his family, giving back to the community through community volunteerism and charitable acts are core values. He also worked as a volunteer First Responder EMT for five years and had the honor to serve at Ground Zero in NYC after 9/11/2001.
Abbas currently serves as a member of the Board for Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAPC), a charitable organization of over 120 staff members driven to end the cycle of child abuse in Orange County. He’s volunteered with CAPC for the last five years and in 2015, had the privilege of serving as the Board’s Chair. Additionally, every April, Abbas and his wife Alison join a team of runners who race nearly 200 miles between Huntington beach and San Diego to raise awareness and funds for the cause – and each Christmas, the Gokal family adopts families in need and delivers basic living necessities to them, a Gokal family tradition.