The number of runaway maids increases during Ramadan, according to statistics.

One reason is that they look for higher wages. More cases of runaway maids are registered in cities where households employ maids without checking their background, which poses threat to the families and their children.

According to data this phenomenon contributes to the rise in maids assaulting children, or even employers.

It said that less than 20 percent of the maids leave their employers to work in other households with higher wages, in a pattern described by the statistics as via organized gangs that indulge in human trafficking.

There are 1 million maids in the Saudi houses currently, according to the statistics, and Saudi families spend more than SR1billion on them a year in pay, food, tickets and other expenses. The pay of a maid stands at SR1,000 when she comes to the Kingdom.

Statistics show that the performance of the government and that of the labor exporting countries and their embassies is somehow flexible, but criticized the supervision and control system to ensure the application of the agreements signed between the Kingdom and the labor exporting countries.