Location within country: Arusha Region, Ngorongoro District, north central near the Kenya border, Maasai area, 2 hours by car from the Wasso-Loliondo area on unimproved roads. 7 villages: Sale (Eroghata), Mdito, Samunge (Soyeta), Digodigo (Ebwe), Kisangiro (Raghari), Mugholo (Gheeri), Oldonyo Sambu (Kura)

Geography and Climate: Scrub forest, semitropical

Altitude: 2000m

Population: 30,000

Cultural Information: Subsistence type: pastoralists; agriculturalists, irrigation

Economic Status: $500-700 per year.

Alternate language names: Gitemi, Sonjo, Kisonjo

Language Group Information: Bantu language. The Temi live in one valley with seven villages surrounded by the Nilotic Maasai.

Religion: Traditional religion, Christian (3 churches). The Temi are somewhat resistant to religious change.

History: The traditional Temi religion is based on the worship of their hero god named Ghambageu. Christianity was introduced in Butemine in 1947 through Lutheran evangelists.The Roman Catholic church was established in the 1970s. In 1984 the Pentecostal churches came to the area. In the late 90s a mosque was built in Samunge. There are a few small Christian congregations among the Temi. Catholics have a church but no resident priest and only one catechist.