Struggling Abroad: Surviving and Still Dreaming

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I am currently doing my masters thesis project, and I’m feeling very depressed and tired. I have been searching for a part-time research based job for four months and still no luck. I am from a lower class family and small village in India, and I took our a £50k pound loan to do my Masters. I like it very much but the cost of living here and the stress is too much. I have started a job in a restaurant where I work as a kitchen helper, I clean toilets, equipment, dishes, the kitchen and help chefs in food processing. I am exhausted but I have nowhere to go as I don’t have any money or support. I am feeling very drained and stuck, and have even now taken on extra work at festivals. As well as research jobs, I am also trying to get apply to PhD programmes, but they mainly seem to be for home students, and I am also not getting any leads. Please help me as I cry and miss my family. I wanted to change the world with my research, that’s why I came to this country but now I am doing nothing for it, and am just despondent.