Many people in Khanh Hoa province know Mr. Tong Phuoc Phuc, a middle-aged man who collects aborted fetuses at hospitals in the province to bury on the mountain. Phuc began doing this charity task in 2001, after burying an abandoned fetus he found at a banyan tree.

He bought a small plot of land on Mount Hon Thom (Nha Trang) and began collecting and burying aborted fetuses. To date, the cemetery named Dong Nhi has up to 11,000 graves.

For over 10 years, Phuc has worked as a construction worker during the day. At night he goes to hospitals to collect aborted fetuses to bury in his own cemetery.

Recently, he transferred the Dong Nhi cemetery to a local pagoda and bought a 11,000 m2 piece of land in Dien Lam commune, Dien Khanh district of Khanh Hoa province to set up a second cemetery.

The graves in the second cemetery.

Each grave is 40 cm2 wide and can contain up to 500 fetuses. The ill-fated fetuses are laid in terra-cotta pots, noted with the day they died. These are the two fetuses Phuc collected from hospital on August 10, 2015. "I cannot identify them as male or female so I named them Paolo and Maria. In a few more days I will lay the gravestone on their grave," he said.

He hires a worker to clean the cemetery and burns incense.

The cemetery is divided into two zones. In the photo is the zone for graves of the fetuses whose parents built after their babies were collected and brought here by Phuc. 

Phuc uses Christian names to name the fetuses.

“Some young girls, knowing that I collected their babies and buried them here, came to see me. They cried a lot and told me that their parents forced them to have an abortion," Phuc said.

Phuc said in 2006 - 2007, he collected about 30 fetuses a day. He decided to find young women who planned to abort to advise them to not go through with it.

He built a small house on a plot of land of 800 m2 in Hon Nghe village, Vinh Ngoc commune, Nha Trang city as shelter for women with unplanned pregnancies. 

He is taking care of five women from Lai Chau, Hung Yen, Quang Tri, Ban Me Thuot and Cam Ranh. Previously, he took care of 30 other pregnant women and and six months after they delivered birth.

All of the five women are very young and unmarried.

Phuc also brings up 18 abandoned children at his home on Phuong Sai Road, Nha Trang City.

The expenses for the kids and the five pregnant women is about VND100 million (nearly $5,000) per month. It comes from Phuc and his family’s income and donations of individuals and enterprises.

The kids live in a warm home with laughter. This is not just a home, but also a kindergarten.