Count your Chickens

Watch the episode in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_woiuqhasRY

This UNICEF animation emphasizes the importance of education for both girls and boys. This is the first episode of Meena.

Story
Meena is returning to her house after finishing her chores for the morning. On the way she hears the school children reciting poem that made her interested to see the class. Seeing there she herself imitates to become the teacher and made Mithu the Parrot her student, she taught him the sentence "I am Mithu.".

After returning home, she asked her parents for sending her to school, but her they refused to do it. They hurt Meena's feelings by telling her that girls don't need to go to school. It is enough for a girl to know to do household work.

That night, while sleeping, Meena dreams that she and the other children are going to school, where Mithu is the teacher. That dream gave Meena an excellent idea of learning. She sent Mithu to school and later she would hear from him what the children were learning today. Thus she learned counting and multiplying. She used her acquired knowledge by counting the 6 chickens belonging to her father.

One day, while counting chickens, she noticed that there is one chicken less. She counted again and again, but got only 5 of them. Actually, a thief stole one of the chickens from the yard. Meena and Mithu noticed the thief and ran after him. All other locals stopped their own work and joined Meena and Mithu. Thus they finally caught the thief. When the chief of the village asked about it to Meena's family, he got to know that Meena does not go to school but she learns mathematics by her parrot. The chief became impressed hearing and said that both boys and girls need to go to school. Thus Meena gets chance to go to school with her brother Raju.