Famed foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour has stepped forward to help a struggling journalism project associated with a former friend, long-time reporter Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria this year.

CNN’s Amanpour forked over about $10,000 to a money-starved campaign to fund journalism students at New York’s Stony Brook University’s Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting who hoped to travel to Africa for a “journalism without walls” program.