Dinky soliman biography

Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman (January 27, 1953 – September 19, 2021) was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker who served as.
Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman (January 27, 1953 – September 19, 2021) was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker.
Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker who served as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development twice, under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2005, and President Benigno.

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Dinky Soliman

Filipino politician, activist, and social worker (1953–2021)

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is Nerves, the birth surname or paternal family name is Juliano, and the marital name is Soliman.

Corazon Victoria "Dinky" Nerves Juliano-Soliman (January 27, 1953 – September 19, 2021) was a Filipina politician, activist and social worker who served as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development twice, under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 2001 to 2005, and President Benigno Aquino III from 2010 to 2016.

Early life and education

Soliman was born on January 27, 1953, in Tarlac City, Philippines. After completing her secondary education at the College of the Holy Spirit of Tarlac,^[1] she attended University of the Philippines Diliman where she obtained her B.S. in Social Work and Master of Social Work degrees.^[1]^[3] She also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she earned her Master of Public Administration.^[1

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Before joining government in 2001, Corazon “Dinky” Soliman worked for 30 years organizing and training grassroots organizations of peasants and urban poor. Her skills in participatory methods, capacity building and creative approaches to problems have benefited the marginalized, NGOs and the government. Through the CO-Multiversity, Dinky promoted peace education, peace zones, peace negotiations and conflict resolution. Her engagement included advocating for funding mechanisms such as debt swap arrangements, the use of recovered ill-gotten wealth and the coconut levy for agrarian reform.

When Dinky Soliman was a political science student at the University of the Philippines, she felt she was studying theories. “Where are the people?” she asked, and shifted to social work. Dinky credits her parents, both community and church leaders, for her love of service to the people. When she was growing up, people kept coming to their house to ask for help or attend meetings. Other influences were her grandmother, who was with the Red Cross, and an aunt who was a juv

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Former social welfare secretary and longtime social worker Corazon “Dinky” Soliman died on Sunday, September 19, her family said. She was 68.

“We pray for the eternal repose of her soul,” said Soliman’s husband, public interest lawyer Hector Soliman. “We will share details of the wake later, and ask that the family be given some time and privacy for grieving.”

Soliman passed away at 7:32 am due to complications from renal and heart failure.

Soliman had contracted COVID-19 in August along with Hector and several other family members, but survived the disease.

In his piece for Rappler, “The day our house stood still: My COVID memoir,” Hector wrote that his wife, who had “many comorbidities,” was already confined in the hospital when she got the infection in mid-August.

Soliman was last seen in public during the wake of former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III in June, and was among those who paid tribute to her former boss.

Soliman first headed the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) during the