Super sad story.
Back in 2014 I visited a food bank in Camborne in Cornwall for work. It's based in a community centre, they also do meals for the elderly and are generally wonderful in every way.
We were chatting with the guy who runs it and he told us that the previous year he realised loo rolls were going missing from their toilets.
He saw a woman who had just been to the food bank put one of them in her bag and gently questioned her about it.
She started crying and said she didn't have any money for sanitary towels/tampons so she didn't know what else to do.
He cried telling me the story, I almost cried hearing it.
He said she was so ashamed and apologized
Now they push people to donate sanitary items too as they are often forgotten about when we think about poverty.