Illona Dasylva

Illona was born and raised in Lyon, France and is currently studying business management in London. With her degree, Illona hopes to go on to work with children’s charities around the world.

At the age of 15 years old motivated by her mum she accomplished her BAFA (French Diploma For Animation) and used these skills while she helped worked in holiday camps. This taught Illona a lot about organisation, children's imagination, their development and most of all, ignited her passion of engaging children in creative activities.

Illona has been a profesisonal nanny for over 3 years with franco-english families and hopes to continue expanding her knowledge and experience of working with children through it to support her future work in children’s charities.

While her main creative expertise is animation, Illona excels in dancing, is very musical and plays the guitar. She’s also an avid creative with skills ranging from drawing to fabric and origami crafts.

Illona in a nutshell

Enhanced DBS check

Experienced with children from 6 months to 15 years

Fluent in French

Experience with groups

Fully Vaccinated