Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Lebanon are some of the countries Kenyans travel to work as domestic workers. It can be safely assumed that a number of the female migrant workers found employment as domestic workers,” the report reads. There are 12,036 informal workers in the country among them domestic workers. ILO 2013 estimates show that, of the 7.9 million migrant workers in Sub-Saharan Africa, 7.3 per cent are domestic workers out of which 6.9 per cent are migrants. Migrant workersIn North Africa, a slightly higher share of the 800,000 migrant workers in the region (nine per cent) are engaged in domestic work.

Source: Standard Digital July 20, 2021 23:18 UTC