Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello says Afghan female guitar students are in "grave danger" and need to be rescued

A dozen child and teenage female musicians in Afghanistan are in "grave danger" from the Taliban and need to be rescued after the U.S. withdrew its military from the country, according to Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello.

The girls, ranging in age from 4 to 19, are members of a school called Girl With a Guitar, a music school in Kabul founded by Lanny Cordola, a songwriter, producer and guitarist for bands such as Giuffria and House of Lords. On Monday, Morello wrote an open letter to the music community asking it to help Cordola get the girls and their families out of Afghanistan. "I'm writing on behalf of some very special girls in Afghanistan who are in grave danger," Morello wrote in the letter, which Cordola sent to Billboard. "[Girl With a Guitar] takes in street orphans and other girls that have endured significant trauma and uses music as a rehabilitation tool and means of working through their problems, their histories, and their hopes."