Tom Morello pens letter asking for assistance evacuating female guitar students from Afghanistan
Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello has written an open letter asking for help evacuating a number of girls out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.As Billboard reports, Morello wrote the letter in support of his friend Lanny Cordola, who runs a music school for girls in Afghanistan through his non-profit Miraculous Love Kids.Six years ago in Kabul, Cordola launched Girl With a Guitar, a program that has taught close to 200 students and recorded collaborations with Morello, Brian Wilson and Nick Cave, among others.In his letter, Morello said the girls are in “grave danger”.“[Girl With a Guitar] takes in street orphans and other girls that have endured significant trauma and uses music as a rehabilitation tool