St. Pamachius Inclusive Secondary School presents part of a comprehensive initiative by the Catholic Diocese of Moshi to addresses the challenge of unequal access to quality education to children with Special Needs in Tanzania. The idea of having an inclusive Secondary school resulted from a diocesan self-evaluation in 2014. While reevaluating its Pastoral Ministry for the past 50 years, it was observed that Children With Special Needs have been left behind in the provision of quality education in the diocesan schools, just as in many other schools.

Despite the presence of some school at Primary level which give access to Pupils with Special Needs, there was no Church owned school which availed such an access at the Secondary level. Furthermore, many pupils with special needs, upon successful completion of Primary education could not get a rightful placement at Secondary level because infrastructures many schools are not friendly.

Few who managed to join Secondary education dropped in-between due to, among other factors, inadequate provision of equipment and Specialized Teachers for Children with Special Needs. Others who persevered and finished the Ordinary Level had poor to bad results in their decisive National Examinations due to unfriendly school environment that did not accommodate their varying learning needs. In a diocesan meeting lead by insights and resolve from the Bishop of the Diocese of Moshi by then (now His Grace Archbishop Isaac Amani, Archbishop of Arusha), it was joyfully decided that we need an Inclusive Secondary School, with properly modified buildings and surroundings to accommodate varying needs in an educational setting at Secondary level. Thus the idea of an Inclusive Secondary School was born. Change of mindset in several key aspects was another battle ground in the apostolate to persons with Special Needs.

It has been widely held that, the care for persons with Special Needs was primarily and sole responsibility of Priests and Nuns. In the effort to change this prevailing narrow mentality, the Diocesan Bishop sought to find a patron saint, who will help in a simple way to communicate the message that, care for persons with special needs is the primary call for all, regardless of their vocation, economical status, educational background or any other bias. He therefore searched and picked St. Pamachius as patron Saint of our School to highlight this needed paradigm shift.