Donations reached approximately 110 million Iraqi dinars ($84,000) raised entirely from the community. To better understand why a community would build its own stadium through personal donations requires understanding what that community has survived. The most recent began on August 3, 2014, when ISIS attacked Sinjar before dawn. The United Nations reported that ISIS killed approximately 5,000 Yazidis and trafficked roughly 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in what the organization designated a genocide. Sinjar was liberated in 2017, but more than 200,000 displaced Yazidis remain in cramped displacement camps.