Rotary International is facilitating the scholarships in New Delhi via US Rotary in Leonardtown, MD. All the author royalties from this anthology are used to send high school graduates from slums in New Delhi to vocational schools. There are also thirty three international recipes. Gelman's most recent book (June, 2010) is an anthology, "Female Nomad and Friends, Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World." Forty-one authors, all but two of them women, tell their stories of "connecting across cultures." Gelman has eight stories in the book. In "Tales.," she writes about the first fifteen years of living around the world, mostly in developing countries. She has never returned to a settled life she calls herself a "modern day nomad." She still has no home and few possessions. In 1987 Gelman decided to sell all her possessions and become a citizen of the world. Her memoir, "Tales of a Female Nomad, Living at Large in the World," was published in 2001 by Crown/Random House and it is still selling widely in paperback. Rita Golden Gelman is the author of more than seventy children's books and two adult books.
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