correspondent: iveta pasicnika provides care to elderly people in remote locations in latvia. before setting off, she writes down what they need. >> bread and butter? and i brought you the right things last time? we got cut off. he doesn't have reception where he lives. that's typical for the latvian countryside. now he's walking around, trying to get a better signal. correspondent: pasicnika works for the "samaritan mobile care complex," a project that supports latvia's elderly. it was given an eu award and is supported through donations. pasicnika's coworker dmitrijs hauss is filling water into the tank of their van. they'll be heading out soon. it'll be a long day. this care service on wheels is run by latvia's samaritans. pasicnika and her colleagues help the elderly in eastern latvia, which borders onussia. it's a sparsely populated region with farms dotted here and there. after latvia gained independence, many young latvians moved away, leaving the elderly behind. without the samaritans, there'd -- they'd struggle to get care. >> we once had to convince an elderly woman